Head of Japan's Unification Church vows to fight loss of legal protections

Why does any church deserve special legal status?

Good riddance to these parasites. He is likely crying due to missing out on living the high luxury lifestyle.

Every place need to be open to financial scrutiny and potential lawsuits if they had broken the law. Now is time to look closely at their books and see just what asset they truly owned as a "church"

They should try to pray for it.

A group of scammers till the end.

"As a righteous, democratic nation and a nation governed by the rule of law, we will fight to the end for the right decision to be made,"

Sounds like an ominous threat. Fight as much as you want, Tanaka, you grub. You are the head of a sick, vile cult that brainwashes the vulnerable and fleeces them of their cash and assets.

No more tax exemptions - good. Now it's up to the authorities to closely watch ALL members of this cult, and their new iteration, where they live and work, and make sure the general public is safe from this trash. If they start trying to recruit new members, they should be locked up.

My ex told me her mom gave these shysters loads of money, they fought about it regularly

Nobody likes you Unification Church, go away and never come back.

Mother Moon is praying hard for you and your continued contributions, but please pay the legal fees yourself. Please pull any political strings you have.

Get rid of these bozos!

your time is over.lets hope for good.

Head of Japan's Unification Church vows to fight loss of legal protections

Sounds like a bad dose of trumpism. Can't accept the legality of the verdict. LOL. Tell your story walking losers.

Head of Japan's Unification Church vows to fight loss of legal protections

That should be easy.

Just "gift" funds to members of the LDP, as usual.

And then everything will be fine for them.

"Head of Japan's Unification Church vows to fight loss of legal protections."

If he feels aggrieved, he can appeal the decision that is what the law for in a civilized society.

They like many other scammers got too far and ended in a bad situation but hey, they scammed the weakest minds in the world of of millions if not billions of money and didn't even got labelled as criminals or got jail terms so yes, use religion as a pretext to scam people and you probably will get rich in no time.

Yes, make all those donations to politicians public. You bought them now expose them.

Yes, make all those donations to politicians public. You bought them now expose them.

That will be almost everyone, though.... in Japan, in South Korea and in the US too.

The LDP members were crying, this is spelling the end of their party. Without the dirty collaborations, they are nobody!

Should fully investigation of Moon SunMyung's role in the party, his political connections and the accusations against him especially the sex crimes he committed over women.Although he is dead, his widow still living, the last opportunity to figure out who exactly was this man!

Exploiters who pretend as if themselves are victim of oppression.

The very first action should have been to immediately freeze all of their bank accounts.

The church, founded by Sun Myung Moon in Seoul in 1954, has wielded political power and courted controversy in South Korea, Japan, and the United States for decades.

That says it right there, on the spot. No religion of any kind should or has the right to yield control or influence in political power and/or government. That violates separation of church and state.

Clergymen/clergywomen should be working for the betterment of the people around, not trying to buy influence and certainly not dictating who or which party to support or vote for.

Not only that, but the Moonies also control every aspect of their followers' lives, even to the point of being inclusive and selecting the members' spouses for them. That's not a church, not a religion but a CULT.

The Japanese government is smart to get rid of these phony clods. It was a CULT that initiated that terrible sarin gas attack in Tokyo 30 years ago, and a member of this Unification CULT murdered the PM. True religions don't do that. Not true Christians, not true Muslims, not true members of any real religion.