In regards to the “most successful assassination” stuff, IDK this seems like nothing to me. Really what they mean by “dissolving” the moonies is taking away their tax exempt status and they can only do that for Japan. It’s a South Korean church with a large American contingent so losing tax exempt status in Japan won’t mean much in the grand scheme of things. I mean, the other two organizations mentioned in the article as being “dissolved” by the Japanese government are still around (albeit under new aliases and/or government surveillance from what I can see.) Seems like it’s more about covering up an embarrassing political fiasco than actually addressing the problem.
This sounds like Japanese politics in general. They shuffle some papers around after an embarrassing scandal, maybe change some minor beuracratic thing, and the whole purpose is to get everything out of the news immediately. It’s pure distilled “we hear you, you’re valid, anyway. Go back to work”
In regards to the “most successful assassination” stuff, IDK this seems like nothing to me. Really what they mean by “dissolving” the moonies is taking away their tax exempt status and they can only do that for Japan. It’s a South Korean church with a large American contingent so losing tax exempt status in Japan won’t mean much in the grand scheme of things. I mean, the other two organizations mentioned in the article as being “dissolved” by the Japanese government are still around (albeit under new aliases and/or government surveillance from what I can see.) Seems like it’s more about covering up an embarrassing political fiasco than actually addressing the problem.
This sounds like Japanese politics in general. They shuffle some papers around after an embarrassing scandal, maybe change some minor beuracratic thing, and the whole purpose is to get everything out of the news immediately. It’s pure distilled “we hear you, you’re valid, anyway. Go back to work”