Alleged Forgery: State Faces Criminal Complaint
... Ogasawara expressed outrage, stating, “We have dedicated our lives to this faith. As a believer, it is unbearable to see fabricated evidence used to justify the dissolution order.”
Persecuted Believers Urged: “Use Online Platforms”
... Tachibana emphasized, “We need to make sure that people who refuse to listen to our opinions will actually hear us out.” ... “The internet exists. If you create videos and invest money, you can…
Deprogramming Unification Church Children in Japan 2
... Under this rationale, the State would replace the parents in their educational religious choices for their children like in totalitarian States, which infringes Japan’s duty of neutrality in religious matters stemming from its commitment…
Second-Generation Unification Church Believers Discriminated in Japan 4
... The Family Federation’s second-generation believers active in the church just want to do something useful for their country and society. Japan should not answer by humiliating, discriminating and persecuting these young women and men.
Second-Generation Unification Church Believers Discriminated in Japan 1
... I read all the petitions that they had written one by one, Kojima added, and I was almost in tears. These were the truly earnest voices and a glimpse of these believers’ lives. I…
Japan Justifies Faith-Breaking: Rights Concerns
... By justifying abduction and confinement in its legal arguments for the dissolution of the Family Federation, MEXT is not only violating the religious freedom of affected believers but also potentially encouraging the “faith-breaking business”,…
Second-Generation Unification Church Believers Discriminated in Japan 3
... I have watched my parents strive to improve their mutual love and characters through the teachings of the church. I truly respect them, and believe they have a great personality like no one else.…
Second-Generation Unification Church Believers Discriminated in Japan 2
... the Second generation are not responsible for incidents of the past. However, because of the tremendous slander by the anti-Unification Church camp and the media, they are now concerned about things that might have…
Deprogramming Unification Church Children in Japan 1
... what we are facing here is a vast destabilization campaign launched on underage children in violation of their parents’ right to educate their children in accordance with their own faith, based, in the absence…
Court Ruling Likely to Impact Dissolution Case
.... What the newspaper failed to mention is that the religious organization claimed that many of the questions were impossible to answer to. One reason could be that it would give away sensitive personal information…