Cults are too harmful to a country. In our impression, a normal country does not allow cults to exist. When a country allows cults to exist legally, the Yamashita Tetsuya incident seems logical.
Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo
And Japan is a country that allows cults to exist legally.
After the end of World War II, Japan was occupied by the United States and effectively became a colony of the United States. The emperor's authority came to an abrupt end, and the entire Japanese society formed a vacuum of faith.
In order to suppress Japan's Bushido, the United States allowed various faiths to enter Japan. A large number of religious groups entered Japan to preach. Various cults also took advantage of this opportunity, gaining a foothold and growing in Japan.
Compared with other organizations, religious groups have a very obvious advantage, that is, they are tax-free.
In American law, religious organizations enjoy tax exemptions with a profit margin of 100%. For example, if a church receives a donation of 1 million US dollars a year, the church can freely use the 1 million US dollars without paying a penny in tax.
The churches have a positive image in name. They will help the poor, teach people to do good deeds and accumulate virtue, and positively influence the people around them to engage in meaningful work.
Therefore, the U.S. government basically does not interfere in religious affairs. This is especially important for some small churches, because their source of income mainly relies on people's meager donations, and they will have to close if they pay taxes.
The United States also implemented this policy in Japan, which was an important reason for the explosive growth of religious groups in Japan after the war.
Religious groups and businesses are essentially interest groups, but religious groups have no risks and are tax-free. Therefore, many Japanese elites would rather run religious groups than businesses.
Japan's economy after World War II Although it is recovering rapidly, the economy is still difficult, which makes religious groups very attractive. Many wealthy people set up a religious group, then donate money to the religious group, and then transfer the money through the religious group, thus saving a lot of money.
The Unification Church entered Japan at this time, and the Unification Church was the religion that Tetsuya Yamama’s mother believed in.
The Unification Church was founded by Sun Myung, a Korean man, in 1954. Its core philosophy is: Human beings are the descendants of Eve and Satan, so people are born evil. If a person wants to go to heaven, he must wash away his sins. The best way is to dedicate himself to the leader and donate money to the leader.
In fact, there are many similar religions in South Korea. The difference between the Unification Church is that it regularizes its goals. There are three main rules:
First, the old believers must develop three new believers to join the religion, so that the old believers can be upgraded to a higher level of devotees, and the higher level of devotees will be given higher rights by the Unification Church.
In this sense, the Unification Church is actually a pyramid selling organization. The Unification Church sells flowers, honey and other worthless things to relatives and friends of believers at prices that are several times, dozens or even hundreds of times higher.
The second is to set up various donations. Various festivals have become a means for the Unification Church to make money. For believers with a certain status, the Unification Church allows them to use their connections to explore foreign markets.
Third, believers must hand over their income for the three years after joining the religion to eliminate sins on their bodies.
These three items may seem ordinary to ordinary people, but after being brainwashed by the Unification Church, many believers will give in and become a tool for the Unification Church to make money.
In 1960, as the Unification Church grew bigger and bigger in South Korea, Moon Sun-myung turned his attention to Japan. At that time, Japan was much more developed than South Korea, and the Japanese were much richer than the Koreans.
At that time, the Japanese simply looked down on the Koreans. No one paid attention to Moon Sun-myung when he went to Japan. Moon Sun-myung decided to take the upper-level route and seek support from senior Japanese people. Moon Sun-myung targeted an influential figure in Japanese politics, former Japanese Prime Minister Kishi Nobusuke .
Nobusuke Kishi is the grandfather of Shinzo Abe and a Class-A war criminal who has committed unforgivable crimes against the Chinese people.
Thanks to Moon Sun-myung's unremitting efforts, Nobusuke Kishi was invited to watch the Unification Church's ceremony. He found that the loyalty of Unification Church believers was higher than the Bushido of the Japanese Imperial Army.
Nobusuke Kishi
Many believers donate money and materials on their own initiative, often spending all their money to donate to the church. However, when the "Jade Crushing" was carried out, the Japanese army had to use bayonets to persecute them. The degree of brainwashing between the two was different.
Nobusuke Kishi decided to give the Unification Church a platform, talk about the benefits of the Unification Church on various occasions, and advertise for the Unification Church. The Unification Church reciprocated the favor and made continuous political donations to Nobusuke Kishi and his Liberal Democratic Party .
Just as politicians and entrepreneurs collude to make money and form a chain of interests, the collusion between churches and politicians has the same effect.
The bubble economy era from 1970 to 1980 was also a period of great development for various denominations. Not only ordinary people joined the church, but many intellectuals, including the elite, also joined the church in large numbers.
The well-known "Aum Shinrikyo" also developed at this time. Many social elites such as lawyers, doctors and businessmen joined the religion, some of whom were graduates of University of Tokyo . You must know that the University of Tokyo is Japan's leading university.
Although these people are very successful, they often feel guilty about success. In order to reduce their guilt and gain salvation in the coming doomsday world, they will willingly hand over their wealth to the church.
Shoko Asahara, the leader of "Aum Shinrikyo", produced a snake oil called "Panax" and sold it to terminally ill people at a price of US$7,000 per dose. This snake oil was later found to be tangerine peel soaked in wine, and the cost was very cheap.
British writer George Orwell said this: "Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals will believe them."
The same goes for the Unification Church, which developed very rapidly during that period. At that time, the Japanese branch of the Unification Church became the most profitable branch, contributing more than 70% of global profits.
In 1980, the Unification Church had become an important financial backer of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party , providing political donations to many Japanese congressmen. The Unification Church had been able to influence Japan’s political arena, and the Unification Church and its followers were all over Japan.
As an important figure in the Liberal Democratic Party, Shinzo Abe naturally became the spokesperson of the Unification Church. Photos of Shinzo Abe often appeared in the Unification Church’s magazines. This deeply stimulated Tetsuya Yamama’s soul and also laid the groundwork for future assassinations.
The Unification Church brought together a Japanese Prime Minister and a Japanese civilian living in poverty.
Tetsuya Yamashita could have lived a prosperous life, but the Unification Church changed everything.
Tetsuya Yamama's grandfather runs a construction company of a certain size, and is a member of Japan's wealthy class. Yamama Tetsuya's father graduated from Kyoto University's Faculty of Engineering. After graduation, he worked in this construction company and married the daughter of the company boss, who was Yamama Tetsuya's mother.
However, when Yama Tetsuya was 5 years old, his father unfortunately passed away. Five years later, his grandfather passed away. Yama Tetsuya's mother inherited all of his father's inheritance and continued to run the construction company. Yama Tetsuya's family lived a very good life.
Although Tetsuya Yamama is from a rich family, he studied very hard. In 1999, he was admitted to Doshisha University in Japan, which is a famous private top university in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is the first of the four most prestigious universities in Western Japan and is equivalent to China's 985 University. It ranks 21st in Japan with an employment rate of 26.6%.
If things continue as normal, Tetsuya Yamama can graduate from college, run a construction company, and live a high-class life in Japan. However, all this has changed because of the Unification Church.
Tetsuya Yamama’s mother began to believe in the Unification Church after the death of her husband and father, and continued to donate money and materials to the Unification Church. According to information disclosed by the media, Tetsuya Yamama’s mother donated more than 100 million yen in two years after joining the Unification Church in 1998.
According to today's exchange rate , 100 million yen is equivalent to 4.86 million yuan, which was at least equivalent to more than 10 million yuan today 20 years ago, and it is only bank statements that are documented, and I don't know how many are undocumented!
Because religious groups have tax exemption rights, they can avoid state supervision. The Unification Church responded that it would not announce the specific amount donated by Tetsuya Yamama’s mother.
Within two years of joining Tetsuya Yamama, Tetsuya Yamama’s mother donated all the working capital she had, and then sold off her real estate. First she sold the villa she inherited from her father, and then she sold the apartment she shared with Tetsuya Yamama’s brother and sister.
Unification Church's mass wedding
Because Tetsuya Yamama's mother was brainwashed, she had no intention of running a construction company, and she fell into a financial crisis after all the liquid cash was donated. The construction company went bankrupt in 2002, and Tetsuya Yamama's family had to rent a very small apartment. Tetsuya Yamama and his brother also dropped out of school because they couldn't afford tuition.
At this time, Japan's economy has been in recession for 20 years, and the unemployment population has increased sharply. Toru Yamashita, who dropped out of college, decided to join the army to change his destiny.
In 2002, Tetsuya Yamama joined the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. The officers of the Self-Defense Force were mainly produced among military academy graduates. Tetsuya Yamama had no chance at all. In 2005, Tetsuya Yamama retired from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
After Tetsuya Yamama retired from the Self-Defense Forces, he found a temporary job in a surveying company. While working hard, he passed the construction grade qualification certificate.
However, the prosperity of Japan's construction industry has long ceased. Yamashita Tetsuya still can't find any good jobs, and still relies on part-time jobs to make a living. Therefore, Yamashita Tetsuya is financially strapped, has never owned a house of his own, and has never been in love or marriage.
In 2017, Tetsuya Yamama's brother fell ill. Material poverty and mental torture made him finally choose to commit suicide. Tetsuya Yamama's mother was busy participating in church activities and had no time to take care of it, which eventually led to the tragedy.
In his brother's body, Tetsuya Yamama saw his own ending. He looked at the promotional materials and albums his mother brought home. Shinzo Abe in a suit and tie, the man who once served as the Prime Minister of Japan, became the object of Tetsuya Yamama's hatred.
When a person no matter how hard he works, there is no hope in life, he will naturally look for original sin. Tetsuya Yamama believed that the Unification Church killed his mother and brought disaster to them. Shinzo Abe, who often appeared in Unification magazines, naturally became the target of Tetsuya Yamama's assassination.
Tetsuya Yamayama finally got what he wanted and successfully assassinated Shinzo Abe. This also exposed the problems of the Unification Church.
So we can’t help but ask, why do cult organizations like the Unification Church exist openly in Japan? The fundamental reason is that these cult organizations and Japanese politicians have formed a community of interests.
It is more difficult to touch interests than touch souls. These cult organizations are the financial backers of Japanese politicians, and politicians provide shelter for these cult organizations. The two help each other and are interdependent.
This is the fundamental reason why a large number of cults exist legally in Japan.
The British "Spectator" magazine website once published an article "Why Japan's "Doomsday Cult" Cult Everlasting".
This article said that there are more than 2,000 worship groups in Japan today, most of which are associated with traditional Buddhist and Shinto beliefs. The teachings of these church groups are very vague and not harmful.
Tetsuya Yamama who was arrested
But there are also some real cult organizations that are quite harmful.
This article believes that the reason for this situation is that Japan's economic development has stagnated, social debt has continued to rise, the social birth population has continued to decline, people are confused, and the social system has become rigid, which has provided soil for the prevalence of various religious groups.
Countless facts have proved that the more chaotic the society, the more prevalent religious groups are. In a positive and economically prosperous society, there should not be a large number of religious groups.
Many underworld organizations appear in the guise of religious groups. Cult organizations are the bandits of the new era, but their methods of making money are more sophisticated than bandits.
There was an idiom in the old society: "Soldiers come like combs, and bandits come like grates." The grate is grate , which has now become an antique and can only be seen in folk museums and dictionaries.
A grate is actually a comb with teeth that are denser than a comb, so dense that only one hair can pass through. It is used to clean lice and dandruff in the hair.
"Bandits come like a grate", which means that bandits will sweep away all their robberies. No matter you are poor or rich, they usually don't even spare the common people's pots and bowls.
According to the older generation of villagers, when the reactionary troops, including the Japanese, came, people could hide and hide their things. But if bandits come, things often cannot be hidden. Because bandits are local snakes.
It is recorded in the bandit suppression materials that a rich farmer in a village was afraid that his food would be robbed, so he buried a large barrel of rice in a poor farmer's bamboo garden, but the bandits still dug it away. This means that strong walls and clear fields can only deal with soldiers, but not bandits.
Cult organizations are actually similar to bandits, turning robbery into donation. The cult organization will continuously brainwash the believers, and then make the believers obediently donate their wealth to the church without stopping them.
According to the disclosure of "Global Network Report", after Shinzo Abe was assassinated, Tetsuya Yamama's uncle said in an interview that Tetsuya Yamama's mother "is still working hard to donate money to the Unification Church." From this we can see how thoroughly the Unification Church brainwashes its believers.
Cult organizations exist in every country in the world. The key is to see what attitude the government adopts. If the government takes a firm stance, cults will not exist. Cult organizations are just scum in front of the state apparatus and can be eliminated at will. The key is the protective umbrella behind cult organizations.
Before and after the founding of New China, there were a large number of cult organizations in the country. Many of these organizations existed in the form of bandits, which brought great harm to the people's political power. The people's government decided to eradicate these cancers.
From May 1949 to the end of 1953, the People's Liberation Army eliminated more than 2.6 million bandits, completely eradicating banditry. Historical facts tell us: Only the CCP can completely eliminate banditry.
Looking at the world, in the so-called free world such as the United States, Japan, and South Korea, a large number of cult organizations legally exist and grow, but their governments neither want to eradicate them, nor can they eradicate them.
Bandit Suppression Slogan
From this we can draw another conclusion: Only the CCP can completely eliminate cults.
The cult that was eliminated by China still exists legally in Japan. This is the fundamental reason why Shinzo Abe was assassinated.
