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8/15/2004
Convictions for fundraising sleaze in Japan; and a submarine article, translation pending
First, more on this story. I still haven't translated it into English, but click the picture below for the full 1994 Weekly Asahi piece on the Russian submarines sold to North Korea, with possible nuclear launching equipment, as scrap metal. (If you're just stumbling upon this, the Japanese press, and one Defense Department analyst, has suggested that the broker in the transaction, now bearing fruit in missiles that could hit the West Coast, was the unpopular Unification Church of Japan.)
And by the way: Does Rev. Moon's status in Japan as a persona non grata -- whose church has been convicted of fraud by the Japanese Supreme Court -- at all undercut the claim that he was prosecuted/persecuted in America because of anti-Asian discrimination? (Not that there isn't racism in Japan...) Or are they just jumpy about ambitious new religions?
From this Japanese lawyers' list of claims against Moon's group in Japan:
(1) Approaching the citizens through individual door-to-doorvisitations or in the downtown area while hiding its identity as the Unification Churci. "Please cooperate in the questionnaire for the study of the youths' consciousness." "I am studying palm reading." "There are lines in your hand which tell that you are in the transition period." They draw out the worries, unfortunate happenings in the family and check the financial situation.
(2)Through such an approach, they trick the people into buying a seal stamp (hanko) or a sosary , at home, coffie shop, or apartment room , by threatening them for long hours saying, "in order to free you from the fateful destiny of ancestors." This costs about 100,000 yen and up to 2 millon yen.
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(6) The amount of offerings Sun Myung Moon orders to be collected from the Japanese followers every month through the Japanese senior officials is enormous. In 1986 and 1987, the aomunt was as high as 10 billion yen every month, and ,in about 1990, it was still a few billion yen evenry month. In order to fulfill the assigned task, the followers who have jobs are forced to make loans of approximately 1 million yen from anumber of financial institutions. In addition, housewaves who have real estate and old aged people living alone have been forced to make offerings in the amount of tens and hundreds of million yen by intimidation. They have also been made to borrow money from financial institutions on the security of real estates, which are then taken by the Unification Church. This kind of debts are received with increasing debts and without any repayment, there are many citizens who are in trouble.
Until 2003, church doctrine required Japan, as the "mother nation" (or "Eve") to provide most funds for the Unification Church. Here is a 1995 letter to George H.W. Bush from the Japanese lawyers who sued the church for door-to-door fraud, protesting Bush's support of Moon.
But in May of 2003, his South Korean empire still reeling from the Asian economic crisis, Moon lashed out at followers for failing to support him in Japan.
You should be embarrassed to own a mountain or a garden. Your personal savings are Satan's hook. When I go to Korea this time, I'll give distribute everything including the heavenly saving fund. I'll make a special order. You should separate from everything in your nation, from its people, and from the country itself. Cut off all ties. To prepare ahead of time, I'm working with Uruguay in South America; the entire nation with me. When three presidents unite with me everything will be done. The time has come when I have an alternative option if Eve doesn't fulfill her responsibility; Japan is not in a position to move the world.
Look at Canada, Taiwan and the Philippines: the Philippines used to be America's colony. We must restore the nation in the Age of Restoration; when those three countries are one…. Our strategy in relation to the island nations is that we must gain the fortune of the island nations representing continents. Without the fortune of the island nations-which are like babies that have been born from the watery environment of the womb-we can't have a world of safe liberation. That's why I work hard for ocean-related projects.
I announced four years ago that I would stop the work with fishing. You all don't know anything; you failed to fulfill your responsibilities. You should have sold off your personal property for the ocean project. Just as I built boats, you should have mobilized your own families to do the same. You don't know anything about the Principle viewpoint; no matter how many times I taught you that, you just look at me with your dead expressions; how could you do that? You're like dirty fallen leaves; if persimmons fall from the tree before they are ripe, they rot and become fertilizer. I can use the satanic world as fertilizer and have a six thousand-year-old tree bear original fruit in three years.
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