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9/26/2006
A big welcome to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Japan's new prime minister
From the Japanese Asahi Shinbun, June 21 this year:
A group of lawyers fighting fraudulent sales by religious entities says the telegram could be used by the Unification Church for promotional purposes both in Japan and overseas.
The National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales says the Unification Church conducts coercive sales and membership campaigns.
The "Moonies" are named after their leader, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. The church is notorious for organizing mass marriages.
The lawyers group sent an open inquiry Monday to Abe calling on him to explain why the message was sent. The same inquiry was sent to Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Okiharu Yasuoka, a former justice minister.
The two were among seven Diet members who reportedly sent telegrams to a convention of the Universal Peace Federation, which was founded in 2005 and is represented by Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon.
It held the event in Fukuoka on May 13.
"Sending a congratulatory telegram could be advertised as supporting and recommending the church's activities," the lawyers' group said.
Between 1987 and 2005, the lawyers group received 26,000 complaints about fraud and strong-arm tactics for signing up new members, it says.
It's not a lot sweat when our own, Stateside politicians dally with the Moonster, though.
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