{"id":49398,"date":"2022-10-17T14:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T05:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/17\/japans-pm-orders-unification-church-investigation-as-scandal-engulfs-party"},"modified":"2022-10-17T14:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T05:04:02","slug":"japans-pm-orders-unification-church-investigation-as-scandal-engulfs-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49398","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s PM orders Unification church investigation as scandal engulfs party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move marks a reversal for Fumio Kishida who was reluctant to scrutinise Moonies\u2019 connections with his own lawmakers<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has ordered an investigation into the Unification church as he attempts to revive his political fortunes amid a scandal linking his party to the religious group.<\/p>\n<p>Kishida had initially been reluctant to increase scrutiny of the church \u2013 whose members are colloquially known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/shinzo-abe-shooting-suspects-motive-casts-spotlight-on-moonies-links-to-politicians\">Moonies<\/a> \u2013 but on Monday his education minister, Keiko Nagaoka, said the probe would begin \u201cimmediately\u201d. Depending on the outcome, the church could lose its tax-exempt status, media reports said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/17\/japans-pm-orders-unification-church-investigation-as-scandal-engulfs-party\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move marks a reversal for Fumio Kishida who was reluctant to scrutinise Moonies\u2019 connections with his own lawmakersJapan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has ordered an investigation into the Unification church as he attempts to revive his political fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49399,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49398\/revisions\/49399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}