14 from Japan opposition party had dealings with Unification Church

Now I understand why the opposition has been so quiet on this topic. Cos they are all guilty.

Yep, the silence was deafening.

So no one clean, even the oposition.

Of course! This toxic cult is going to cover all its bases. Its influence is deep and spread very wide.

The real silence is from the Komeito / Soka Gakkai.

Not just a Japanese phenomenon.

Yukio Edano, ..........., was featured in a 2006 article of a roundtable discussion in the church-affiliated Sekai Nippo newspaper.

House of Representatives lawmakers Jun Azumi and Akio Fukuda were both interviewed by the newspaper in 2010

an organization connected to the church had paid a 10,000 yen fee for a party held by lower house lawmaker Kaname Tajima.

An article in 2006, an interview in 2010, "an organization connected to the church had paid a 10,000 yen fee"; none of these examples are worth getting hysterical about.

I wish I could say I was surprised.

Yukio Edano, Jun Azumi, Akio Fukuda... Core faces of the party. When including Tamaki (DPFP) & Yukio Hatoyama.. DPJ was also badly trapped in the cults. Besides, not just UC or other cults, what about Kiyomi Tsujimoto who had deep ties to the quasi-anti-social forces, far left labor Union of which 89 members including the top were arrested already.

Media ceased to follow this mafia-union and its relation with CDPJ and with even Mizuho Fukushima.

CDPJ, DPFP, SDPJ sure must well prepare themselves to avoid shameful tit for tat.

At least the church is anti communist. That is commendable, given the horrible suffering that communism led to wherever it was tried.

why i am "not surprised" at all?

At least the church is anti communist. That is commendable, given the horrible suffering that communism led to wherever it was tried.

Anti-communist?

Is that so?

Even though Sun Myung Moon and Kim Il Sung were really good drinking buddies???

In his autobiography, Moon wrote, "We were like brothers who were meeting for the first time after a long separation".

Moon wasn't "anti-communist". He was an opportunist and a greedy one at that.

The only thing the two shared was a vision of a "unified Korea" peninsula.

At least the church is anti communist.

didnt 26 million Russians die to stop Nazi germany? What is so wrong with communism?

If you ever had even the smallest dealings with the Moonies, you quickly learned that they are disingenuous and pushy. They can be quite able to misguide people who are idealistic and pure at heart. That is the most ugly thing about Moonyism.

Hardly surprising, since the undue relationship is so common in the LDP it should be easy to think people in other parties would know about it, that the problem has been hidden for so long from the public would then mean that the people that are most interested in exposing it didn't do it because they are also involved.

What is so wrong with communism?

Besides what I noted, Google will reveal quite a history about that.

Moon wasn't "anti-communist". He was an opportunist and a greedy one at that.

So are UC and its affiliates still. They are leech in disguise of religious group

An article in 2006, an interview in 2010, "an organization connected to the church had paid a 10,000 yen fee"; none of these examples are worth getting hysterical about.

This Exactly.

If that's the best dirt they got on em…

Fail.

These aren't juicy, these are 3 random lame things. And now it all makes no sense. The whole time, before now all these Looter affiliates ever talk about, is, well ya see, everybody votes for the one party cus theres like, NO other option. Or we'd vote for the other parties too. But they got no suitable candidates... so…

OK then, if you say so. Opposition = Non options.

So now this here, what are We even talkin about.

It sounds like, 14 non options and 1-man and some random interviews. 1 stinkin-man? Right after all the preaching all those years about no votes cus no- other options. Suddenly somebody got desperate for some options...

Stop with the weak sauce. Go fetch the piggy bank, get out the forks for the stash for yer buddy guys. (maybe not suit recruit cus hot water) but you know, the other PR spin people. Pretty sure they'll even take tax or check. That'll fix it.

The most unique practice of democracy in Japan is shown in the cases of relations with the Church Unification cult. It seems that there is no bargaining, involvement with them is a disgrace. No Democracy in democracy politic