{"id":58054,"date":"2023-09-04T14:21:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T05:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/04\/japan-may-seek-to-dissolve-moonies-church-in-wake-of-shinzo-abe-killing"},"modified":"2023-09-04T14:21:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T05:21:36","slug":"japan-may-seek-to-dissolve-moonies-church-in-wake-of-shinzo-abe-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58054","title":{"rendered":"Japan may seek to dissolve Moonies church in wake of Shinzo Abe killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese media report the courts may be asked to disband the Unification church amid criticism of ruling party\u2019s ties to organisation<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s government may ask courts to order the dissolution of the Unification church following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">assassination<\/a> in July last year of the former prime minister Shinzo Abe, according to multiple local reports.<\/p>\n<p>The church, whose members are known colloquially 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>, could be subject to a court order to disband as early as next month, pending the completion of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/22\/japan-begins-inquiry-into-unification-church-in-wake-of-shinzo-abe-killing\">inquiry into the group\u2019s controversial fundraising activities<\/a>, according to the Kyodo news agency, which cited an unnamed government source.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/04\/japan-may-seek-to-dissolve-moonies-church-in-wake-of-shinzo-abe-killing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese media report the courts may be asked to disband the Unification church amid criticism of ruling party\u2019s ties to organisationJapan\u2019s government may ask courts to order the dissolution of the Unification church following the assassination in Jul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"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-58054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58054","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58055,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58054\/revisions\/58055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}