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First criminal trial of a front company of the Unification Church of Japan to be held – for doing ‘Spiritual Sales’

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Red Flag newspaper

Trial of the Fortune Telling fraud to be held

Part ①

First criminal trial of a front company of the Unification Church of Japan to be held – for doing ‘Spiritual Sales’

September 1, 2009 (Tuesday) [Society] Edition B (14)

The first criminal trial (“Shinsei” case) to judge spiritual sales will be held at the Tokyo District Court on the 10th. The defendants are Shinsei, a limited company that sells seals, and two executives. It is a front group of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (Unification Association). The Unification Church’s method is to hide their true identities and approach people. Health foods, Buddhist altar fittings, jewelry stores, and even volunteers. How far can the court dig into that scheme? (Mutsuo Kakita)

“Shinsei” is mainly active around JR Shibuya Station. He called out to passers-by, invited them to his office under the guise of a fortune telling, and threatened them by saying, “You are at a turning point,” or “You have a connection with your ancestors, and you will be unhappy if you continue like this.” I was made to buy a set of 3 for 160,000 to 1,200,000 yen.

There are cases where people say, “That’s God’s advice. You have no choice but to donate,” when you lose your key. Since 2000, it is believed that about 2,000 cases and 670 million yen have been earned.

The investigation also revealed that Shinsei was the collection department of the Unification Association, and that the president, Naoki Tanaka, reported business to the cult leaders.

“Shinsei” is a branch organization of a cult called a sales company. Under the headquarters of the Unification Association of Japan (Shoto, Shibuya-ku), there are “regions” that divide the country into more than 10 regions. “Shinsei” belongs to the “South Tokyo Parish”.

▲ National Federation of Bar Associations called for “the clarification of the full extent of the incident” at a press conference held on July 28.

The Nationwide Spiritual Sales Countermeasures Lawyers Liaison Association (National Federation of Lawyers) has over 240 sales companies nationwide through damage consultations. Seals, medicines, jewelry, paintings, Japanese clothes, and many other signboards, all of which are disguised (dummy) organizations of the Unification Association. Even if the products we deal with at the entrance are different, from there onwards we will follow the same course as Shinsei.

So far, criminal cases of spiritual sales have been limited to informal fines. This is the first time he has been tried in public court. In order to avoid clarification of the organized nature of the crime and the flow of money, the defendant’s side seems to be aiming to admit all the facts of the indictment and bring it to an early conclusion. Attorney Hiroshi Yamaguchi, secretary-general of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, points out, “It is the responsibility of the judiciary to clarify the background of the case.”

________________________ The “Shinsei” Incident In June, the Public Security Department of the Metropolitan Police Department searched the Tokai Kyokai Shibuya Church (Shibuya Ward, Tokyo) and the Gotokuji Church (Setagaya Ward), etc., and found the president Naoki Tanaka, director Junichiro Furusawa, and a female salesperson of the seal sales company Shinsei. Three people were arrested on suspicion of violating the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions (intimidation, embarrassment). In July, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office indicted both Tanaka and Furusawa as Shinsei. The remaining three have been sentenced to fines.

(to be continued) ________________________

September 2, 2009 (Wednesday) [Society] Edition B (14)

Trial of the Fortune Telling fraud to be held

Part ②

The true aim is “faith” education

There is compelling physical evidence that proves that the spiritual sales of the defendants Naoki Tanaka, who is responsible for the seal sales “Shinsei”, are organized activities of the Unification Association, and what their real intentions are.

From the end of 2002 to around January 2003, I took notes from an internal study session held at the East Tokyo District of the Unification Church. Obtained by Kinkoku Spiritual Sales Attorney Association (National Federation of Bar Associations).

Approximately 30 young women (middle-aged female believers) from Edogawa Church in Tokyo attended. The lecturer was defendant Tanaka. Defendant Tanaka belongs to the South Tokyo Parish, which has jurisdiction over Shibuya Ward and other districts. Kim Kokubenren believes that the reason why he was a lecturer in the East Tokyo Diocese was that his achievements in the “Shinsei” were highly evaluated.

According to the notes from the lecture, Tanaka emphasized that “before we sell (seals), we are religious people and evangelists.” It is “seed planting” that makes people buy seals, and teaches that “how to plant good seeds, and if you plant seeds of good motives, faith education. There is no need for difficult things.”

Grab a person’s heart with a fate appraisal, make them buy something, and put them in a video center (often disguised as a power lecture center), a brainwashing educational facility. They are made to make donations under various pretexts, experience the restoration of their husbands (making their husbands join the faith), the restoration of all things, the blessing, and so on, and are transferred to the “frontline forces”. This is a curriculum that turns spiritual sales “victims” into new “perpetrators.”

The “restoration of all things” that appears in the curriculum is an important doctrine of the Unification Church. The Spiritual sales is also rationalized in that any method can be an act of salvation because it “returns” property that belongs to Satan (devil = ordinary citizens) to the original owner, God (ie Reverend Sun Myung Moon).

Similarly, “blessing” refers to group marriages (mass weddings) that symbolize “sex” with the guru. Married people will be sent to the “ready-made blessing”.

Spiritual sales are “activities to restore all things”, and “part of religious activities or missionary activities” (September 1999, Hiroshima High Court Okayama Branch) have given such judgments many times.

“The ‘Shinsei’ who was indicted was not that conspicuous,” said Hiroshi Yamaguchi, a lawyer at the Kim Guo Bar Association. In 2008, 43.55 million yen was reported to the National Federation of Bar Associations, and in June of 2009, 36.73 million yen had already reached 36.73 million yen at sales companies in Tokyo alone, including Shinsei.

not proofed: Chart caption: Spiritual sales damage consultation window by a sales company in Tokyo. Most of the victims are sent to video centers for brainwashing education.

(to be continued)

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September 3, 2009 [Society] Edition A page 14

Trial of the Fortune Telling fraud to be held

Part ③

Infiltrating civil society in disguise

The Unification Association is a “disguised (dummy) group”. Camouflage is not limited to sales companies (stores) of spiritual sales. They are infiltrating civil society under various disguises.

“Tanpopo”. We are a volunteer circle in Adachi Ward, Tokyo. Fundraising activities under the guise of supporting elementary school students in China and the Philippines, cleaning up the Arakawa riverbed, and cooperation with festivals and events in the ward. Some ward council members participate in the activity.

The office of “Tanpopo” is located in an apartment in Senju, the same district. The structure allows access to the 2nd floor and the 1st basement floor from the outside stairs, and on the 2nd floor is the Unification Church “Adachi Church”. The salon-style basement floor is a brainwashing educational facility called a video center. There are also related facilities on the 3rd and 10th floors.

Adachi Church is the base of the North Tokyo Diocese. There is a women’s section, a youth section, and a sales company, and “Tanpopo” is one of them.

“I’ve even received a letter of appreciation from the organizers of the event in which Tanpopo cooperated,” said a woman who joined the church in 2004 and was a member of the church’s commuter organization “Bigin” until she left the church in 2006.

160 people belong to “Bigin”, which means that they continue to work in the Unification Association while living a citizen life even after joining the faith. It seems that there were beauticians, nursery teachers, doctors, nurses, and teachers.

“Please show me your palm for a reading,” solicited on the street. Participated in local festivals under the name of “True Family Federation”. It is said that she once stood at the station as a campaigner for the Liberal Democratic Party and Democratic Party candidates in elections.

Holding a jewelry exhibition and a kimono exhibition in cooperation with a spiritual sales company. It seems that the jewelry exhibition has achieved the sales target of 7 million yen.

General youth and housewives groups who saw the event information sometimes joined the “Tanpopo” volunteer activities. One of my activities was to expand my sympathy with these people and invite them to seminars held by the Unification Association.

National organizations disguised as volunteers are “Nonohanakai” and “Shinzen.” A few people sleep in a van and go door-to-door to sell delicacies and donate fakes. According to people involved, daily sales are around 40,000 to 50,000 yen. It seems that it will be 1 million yen per month for one person.

The Principle Study Group (CARP), which is active in the name of a university circle, the Women’s Federation for World Peace, the International Relief and Friendship Foundation, the Little Angels, and the Universal Ballet... They are all camouflage organizations of the Unification Church.

(to be continued)

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September 4, 2009 [Society] Edition A page 14

Trial of the Fortune Telling fraud to be held

Part ④

“Fate” that attracts believers

“Back talk”. It is a talk manual that draws the target person into spiritual sales and further tailors it to a believer. Also known as “fate talk”.

“First, we will make you feel the “spirit world” in the video center. Spiritual shows on TV can also be props. On top of that, the talk is as follows.

▽ Life consists of life in the womb in the mother’s body, life on earth, and life in the spirit world that continues forever. Life on earth around 80 years is a preparation period for going to the spirit world.

▽ The spirit world has heaven, intermediate spirit world, and hell, and which spirit world you go to depends on how you live on earth. Heaven means “the country of two,” and “couples who have completed true love” (those who have participated in a mass marriage under Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han) can go there on earth.

▽ Those who have gone to hell cannot go to the upper spirit world on their own. This is because “sins committed on earth must be atoned for on earth,” and the spirits of hell “seek salvation from their descendants on earth.”

If you go back two or three generations, you have many ancestors. If you do not accept the teachings of the Unification Church during your lifetime and release (rescue) the spirit world of your ancestors who went to hell, you and your family will be miserable. Buddhism’s “ancestor memorial service” is nothing more than comfort. Then a psychic from the Unification Church appears and tells them, “You, the tribal messiah, should offer all your blood, sweat, and tears to God (the holy Sun Myung Moon).”

The story is that believers who are in a state of mind control save their ancestors in hell, earnestly donate to avoid their own hell, and work hard at the spiritual sales.

The Unification Church will issue providences (instructions) for donations to believers under various pretexts.

A collection of Sun Myung Moon’s sermons, called the “scripture,” costs 30 million yen per volume. Getting them to buy this is also a task of “amnesty” to get God’s special permission.

In a civil lawsuit (Sapporo District Court) in which a former member sought compensation for damages, among the evidence submitted by the plaintiff, there is an internal document called “Seihon Aikoku Amnesty Course” (February 27-April 20, 2000).

As of April 14th, there are 11 “Sacred Book Victory Counts” in the three parishes of Hokkaido. According to the plaintiff’s attorney, Seiji Goji, this is the sales record. It is 330 million yen for 11 books.

The internal document “Significance of the Scriptures” reads as follows.

“This ‘40-Day Amnesty Course’ and the ‘Holy Book’ providence is that we must win even if we sell the entire Japanese archipelago.”

(to be continued)

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September 5, 2009 [Society] Edition A page 14

Trial of the Fortune Telling fraud to be held

Part ⑤

Damage of 1 trillion yen when it sprouts

In July, immediately after the prosecution of the “Shinsei” group, the National Network of Lawyers Against the Spiritual Sales (National Federation of Lawyers) established the “Spiritual Sales Code 110”. Four phones keep ringing. In three hours, 39 consultations were received, and the amount of damage was 200 million yen (including 26 cases of Unification Association, 170 million yen).

Attorney Hiroshi Yamaguchi said, “It was more than I expected. I was keenly aware of the amount of potential damage.”

In 2008, the National Network of Bar Associations compiled a total of 1510 cases of 3.7 billion yen in damage consultations nationwide. Since 1987, the total number of valve consolidation has reached 30,000 cases and amounted to 106 billion yen.

“This is the number of people who realized they had been deceived and brought in for advice.” It’s just the tip of the iceberg. What is the actual damage?

There is an internal document of the Unification Association dated May 1, 2007. This is a list of the amounts paid to the headquarters from 72 parishes nationwide on this day.

Nishi-Hiroshima parish was ranked first nationwide with 98 million yen. 76 million yen in West Tokyo, 67.8 million yen in Hyogo, and 2.6 million yen in the Iwate parish, which is the lowest. It is unknown how many days it took to collect this.

There is a statement submitted to the court by a man who joined in 1995 and left in 2007, as well as internal documents. Since 1998, he has been in charge of general affairs in a prefecture in Kyushu (one parish in the prefecture as a whole). He was in charge of distributing the amount of money instructed by the headquarters through the region (area headquarters) to the affiliated areas and transferring the collected money to the headquarters.

The remittance was made to a related building near the headquarters of the Unification Association, and the recipient name at the time was “○○ Bank Hideo Oyamada”. He served twice as chairman of the Japan Unification Association from 1994-95 and 2001-06. It is said that he once packed a bundle of 50 million yen in bills in a rucksack and carried it to headquarters.

Among the documents submitted to the court, there is a monthly summary table collected by this prefecture through donations and spiritual sales from 2004 to 2006. In 2004, 1,314 million yen was sent to headquarters. 1.2 billion yen in 2005, 770 million yen in 2006. According to another source, this prefecture’s remittance record is about one-fifth of all parishes. That’s the amount.

It’s been nearly 30 years since spiritual sales became a social problem. “Actual damage will exceed 1 trillion yen,” said Masaki Kito, a lawyer at the Zenkoku Barren. At a press conference ahead of his first criminal trial, he pointed out:

“It’s too late to investigate, but we have to stop the damage in the bud here. We’re at the stage where the government is responsible for neglecting it.”

(End)

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