2. Freedom of the Press in Japan – Unification Church style
The Washington Post September 16, 1984
extract: “… At a later meeting in June 1983 on Korea’s Cheju Island, Moon told a church group that four things were necessary for world consolidation: ideology, economy, science and technology, and journalism.
“With journalism, we have now reached success by establishing The Washington Times,” Moon said, according to Yoshikazu Soejima. “We now have a direct influence on Reagan through The Washington Times.”
By Soejima’s account, his break with the church followed a dispute over editorial independence. As editor of Sekai Nippo, Soejima said, he was attempting to transform the paper from a church organ into a respected journal with general appeal. At the end of last September, however, he said, he began to hear rumors that Moon had ordered his firing.
On the first of October [1983], about 100 people – including about 30 in special karate training groups – barged into the paper’s office. They were led by members of Shokyo Rengo, an anticommunist political group affiliated with the [Unification] church, Soejima said. They broke into desks, stole papers and beat up some of the employees, he said. Soejima, Inoue and a policeman that Soejima had previously summoned took shelter in an office when they arrived. “The church members kicked in the door but stopped when they saw a policeman inside,” he said.
Sekai Nippo vice president Naohiro Nada said the church fired Soejima because he was trying to seize full control of the newspaper and make himself president. Soejima filed papers at the company registry to accomplish this, Nada said. Soejima says he did so to protect his position after learning Moon planned to fire him.
On June 2 1984, Soejima was attacked outside his home in Tokyo and stabbed repeatedly, according to police reports. When the attack occurred, he was preparing an article「これが『統一教会』の秘部だ」critical of Moon that was later published in the Japanese magazine Bungeishunju, he said.
During an interview, Soejima unbuttoned his shirt to show scars on his left bicep, neck and chest, which he says he got in the attack. No one has been arrested in the case.”
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Moon’s Japanese Profits Bolster Efforts in U.S.
By John Burgess and Michael Isikoff
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 16, 1984; Page A01
extract: “The Japanese branch of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church has transferred at least $800 million over the past nine years into the United States to finance the church’s political activities and business operations, including The Washington Times newspaper, according to two former high-ranking church officials.
This money is generated in Japan, primarily through a Tokyo-based business operation that uses church members to sell marble vases, miniature treasure pagodas and other religious icons that are represented as having supernatural powers, the former officials said.
The sale of these items has been the principal source of capital for an international network of Unification Church operations, said the former officials, Yoshikazu Soejima and Hiroaki Inoue. …”
The above two extracts are a small part of a significant report.
Shigehiko Togo of the Washington Post Tokyo Bureau and special correspondent Martin Anderson in Montevideo, Uruguary, contributed to this report.
Full Washington Post report here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/profit.htm
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The case of a mysterious death at a CARP training session in Japan. The 18 year-old student had been beaten.
The incident of the strange death at the training session, which I wrote about in Chapter 1 of this book, was reported in the Weekly Asahi 週刊朝日. This article provides a glimpse into the Unification Movement’s training sessions, so it is included here as a reference for readers.
日本の狂気―勝共連合と原理運動 (1971年) Link to the Japanese
Frenzy in Japan – The Federation [for Victory over Communism] and the Unification Church (1971)
by Arai Arao 荒井 荒雄
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1. Freedom of the Press in Korea – Unification Church style
Moon’s followers poured a pot of urine and feces on the head of a Seoul University Professor of Religion.
Tahk Myeong-hwan was offered a bribe of $450,000 to discontinue research into the Unification Church
The Korean regime imprisoned former Unification Church members who revealed the inner workings of the UC
In 1975 Korean Unification Church members physically attacked many Christian pastors
“In Korea, one even senses a fear, like one induced by the Mafia, among the opposition, and … outspoken opponents speak of death threats.” Prof. Sontag, 1976
Prime Minister Kishi of Japan, organised crime and the Moon involvement in Japanese politics gained protection for the UC
1a. The LDP’s Tangled Ties to the Unification Church (2022)
1b. NNLASS press conference held in Tokyo on FFWPU/UC “spiritual sales” (2022)
2. Richard J. Samuels – Kishi and Corruption: An Anatomy of the 1955 System (2001)
3. John Roberts – Earth-conquering Moonies (1978)
4. Kishi wrote a letter to President Reagan to get Moon sprung from jail. (1984)
This is the hidden side of the ‘Unification Church’ Soejima Yoshikazu
これが 『統一教会』 の秘部だ
世界日報事件で『追放』された側の告発
『文藝春秋』 1984年7月号
副島嘉和 編集局長
そえじま よしかず
(「インフォメーション」編集発行人)
井上博明 営業局長
いのうえ ひろあき
(「インフォメーション」営業担当)
暴カをふるって占拠
なぜ訣別したのか
「愛のマグロ釣り研修」とは
日本語版から削除された個所
敬礼式の奇怪な儀式
金集めに狂奔
「ハッピ一ワ一ルド」社とは?
脱税の手ロ
セ一ルスマン用の手引書
米国における脱税裁判
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