{"id":50449,"date":"2022-11-22T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T06:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/22\/japan-begins-inquiry-into-unification-church-in-wake-of-shinzo-abe-killing"},"modified":"2022-11-22T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T06:54:58","slug":"japan-begins-inquiry-into-unification-church-in-wake-of-shinzo-abe-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50449","title":{"rendered":"Japan begins inquiry into Unification church in wake of Shinzo Abe killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation will focus on church\u2019s finance and organisation amid public dismay at extent of its links to ruling party<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s government has launched an investigation into the Unification church, five months after the former prime minister Shinzo Abe was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/17\/japans-pm-orders-unification-church-investigation-as-scandal-engulfs-party\">shot dead<\/a>, allegedly by a man with a longstanding grudge against the group.<\/p>\n<p>The probe, announced on Tuesday, will focus on the church\u2019s finances and organisation, and could see it stripped of its legal status, media reports said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/22\/japan-begins-inquiry-into-unification-church-in-wake-of-shinzo-abe-killing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation will focus on church\u2019s finance and organisation amid public dismay at extent of its links to ruling partyJapan\u2019s government has launched an investigation into the Unification church, five months after the former prime minister Shinzo Abe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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-50449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50449","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50450,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50449\/revisions\/50450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}