Japanese gov't spokesman calls for officials to review ties with Unification Church

""strongly anti-communist church""

Let's get this straight, this is NOT an Anti Communist organization by ay means, this is a multibillion $ business enterprise using religion as a cover and a popular Anti Communist 1950/60 slogan.

Scamming followers out of their life savings, threating them with Karma, hiding income & assets, not paying taxes, and living a lavish life style in the name of God and Anti - Commi's has nothin to do with being Anti - Communist.

"Regarding the issues related to the Unification Church, we should pay enough attention to relationships with organizations that are socially criticized, so people won't have concerns," Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said at a regular news conference.

People are not concerned , they are appalled by the influence on society and politics of these religious organizations.

And luckily for the LDP, before the assassination of former PM Abe there was not much criticism socially so the flow of monies and influence peddling between the Unification Church and politicians could continue unmolested.

Now the LDP is sadly concerned with the blowback.

The question is how to stop LDP graft and corruption….

There needs to be a full public inquiry about the UC/LDP relationship.

Politicians wont cut such financial support and for sure new cult with just a new name will be created. That's Japan corrupted politicians....

Again with "review" ties...meh!

The Public won't be happy until review is changed to CUT ties!

Japanese gov't spokesman calls for officials to review ties with Unification Church

Don't merely review the ties, sever them completely.

Longstanding links between the strongly anti-communist church, 

Now it turns out that the UC has been a very anti-Japanese chauvinist organisation from the very beginning. It remained unknown for long to the Japanese public as the church officials used a double-tongue duplicity. The UC's "Korean version" statements must disturb many conservatives.

統一教会問題まだある論点　教団の「反日思想」　原語資料にある"これだけの証拠"

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/byline/yoshizakieijinho/20220812-00309685

The right-wing LDP's core values are now tested.

Once again, no calls at all to CUT ties, just to "review" them... whatever that means. It's like the clowns in government in an Ayn Rand novel.

Rule Number One of Japanese Politics - Don't get Caught!

Reading between the lines - hide/ obfuscate/ disguise them!

Could anyone in their wildest dreams imagine Matsuno San's American counterpart telling American officials to review their ties to Christian churches?

Again with "review" ties...meh!

The Public won't be happy until review is changed to CUT ties!

So you are saying that public officials cannot worship as they choose? That public officials do not have the same religious rights as the general public? That for public officials certain religions are proscribed? Be careful and think before you answer.

Desert TortoiseToday  09:56 am JST

> So you are saying that public officials cannot worship as they choose? That public officials do not have the same religious rights as the general public? That for public officials certain religions are proscribed? Be careful and think before you answer.

Pot meet kettle...So you are saying political figures worshiping and accepting donations from cults is acceptable??

Think before you type!

we should pay enough attention to relationships with organizations that are socially criticized, so people won't have concerns

If they're dirty but haven't been rumbled yet, business as usual.

Ginza tonight?

So you are saying that public officials cannot worship as they choose? That public officials do not have the same religious rights as the general public? That for public officials certain religions are proscribed? Be careful and think before you answer.

The UC is not any type of Christian denomination or mainstream religious groups. Comparatively their activities in Japan are much closer to those of Yakuza crime syndicates, most of which are regulated or banned under 暴対法 laws by the authorities. Politicians suspected with ties to Yakuza will kill their careers, and no excuse.

Stripping the UC of official religious status or designating it as an anti-social organisation like Yakuza wouldn't be an infringement on freedom of faith.

Revoke the UC of its official religious status.

Insider has an eye-opening three-part description of the Unification Church. The 2nd part is here, with links to the first and third. https://www.insider.com/unification-church-moonies-life-liberation-fees-slapping-therapy-2022-7

In any religion, there are good guys and there are bad guys. First thing first, they all need followers to build up their wealth. They need to get paid too and they get a lot. What to do with the extra money "legally?" They can benefit or influence the society for the better and worse!

Pot meet kettle...So you are saying political figures worshiping and accepting donations from cults is acceptable??

Who are you or anybody else to call them a cult? The Mormon Church (no I am not a member) has often been accused of being a cult. Jehova Witnesses are routinely called a cult. Every religion thinks theirs is the only true religion and every other faith is a cult of worse. I do not belong to any religion. I have a generally dim view of all religions. However it is emphatically not my right to impose a belief on any one else, nor should any government feel empowered to suppress a religion by labeling it a cult. By that standard politicians have every right to belong to any religion they chose to belong to, and that should never under any circumstances be a factor in their fitness for public service. I was raised Catholic and in my youth Catholics were widely considered unfit for public office as they were seen as being loyal first to Rome and not to their country. JFK managed to put paid to that but such fears persist as we saw decades later when Mitt Romney, a Mormon, had to make it clear his loyalties are to the US and not to his church. I had a cousin, a big fat lazy slob of a welfare queen who never did a thing for her country but take its money tell me, her cousin who served as a Naval Officer and now as a civilian employee of that same Navy that because I was not christian I could not be considered to be a "loyal American". Phooey. So sorry but I have no patience for such nonsense any more.