{"id":50997,"date":"2022-12-08T16:02:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T07:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/08\/japans-lower-house-tightens-religious-donation-rules-amid-unification-church-controversy"},"modified":"2022-12-08T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T07:02:55","slug":"japans-lower-house-tightens-religious-donation-rules-amid-unification-church-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50997","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s lower house tightens religious donation rules amid Unification church controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Fumio Kishida has seen approval ratings plummet since ties between LDP and the church were exposed<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s lower house of parliament has passed a law that will make it a crime for religious and other organisations to \u201cmaliciously\u201d secure donations from members \u2013 a move seen as an attempt by the ruling party to defuse the controversy over its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/revelations-shinzo-abe-death-unification-church-moonies-political-influence-japan\">ties to the Unification church<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has seen his approval ratings plummet since widespread ties between his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the church were exposed in the wake of the assassination this summer of Japan\u2019s former leader, Shinzo Abe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/08\/japans-lower-house-tightens-religious-donation-rules-amid-unification-church-controversy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Fumio Kishida has seen approval ratings plummet since ties between LDP and the church were exposedJapan\u2019s lower house of parliament has passed a law that will make it a crime for religious and other organisations to \u201cmaliciously\u201d secure &#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50997","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=50997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50998,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50997\/revisions\/50998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}