{"id":59180,"date":"2023-10-13T19:13:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T10:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/13\/japan-asks-court-to-strip-unification-church-of-religious-status"},"modified":"2023-10-13T19:13:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T10:13:55","slug":"japan-asks-court-to-strip-unification-church-of-religious-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59180","title":{"rendered":"Japan asks court to strip Unification church of religious status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after assassination of former PM Shinzo Abe and growing criticism of fundraising activities<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s government has asked a court to strip the Unification church of its status, amid growing criticism of the group\u2019s fundraising activities after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">assassination<\/a> last year of the former prime minister Shinzo Abe.<\/p>\n<p>If the Tokyo district court accepts the request, 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 will be stripped of its status as a religious corporation and lose exemptions from corporate and property taxes, as well as a tax on income from monetary offerings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/13\/japan-asks-court-to-strip-unification-church-of-religious-status\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after assassination of former PM Shinzo Abe and growing criticism of fundraising activitiesJapan\u2019s government has asked a court to strip the Unification church of its status, amid growing criticism of the group\u2019s fundraising activities after&#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":[41,88,371,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-religion","category-shinzo-abe","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59180","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=59180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59181,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59180\/revisions\/59181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}