{"id":70397,"date":"2025-03-25T18:15:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T09:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/25\/tokyo-court-orders-dissolution-of-moonies-unification-church"},"modified":"2025-03-25T18:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T09:15:49","slug":"tokyo-court-orders-dissolution-of-moonies-unification-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70397","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo court orders dissolution of \u2018Moonies\u2019 Unification Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assassination of former Japanese prime minister in 2022 spurred official request for South Korean-based sect to be closed<\/p>\n<p>A court in Japan has ordered the Unification Church to be dissolved after a government request that was spurred by the investigation into the 2022 assassination of the former prime minister Shinzo Abe.<\/p>\n<p>The church, founded in South Korea and nicknamed the \u201cMoonies\u201d after its late founder, Sun Myung Moon, is accused of pressuring followers into making life-ruining donations, and blamed for child neglect among its members, although it has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/25\/tokyo-court-orders-dissolution-of-moonies-unification-church\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assassination of former Japanese prime minister in 2022 spurred official request for South Korean-based sect to be closedA court in Japan has ordered the Unification Church to be dissolved after a government request that was spurred by the investigatio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2342,"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":[41,370,88,371,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christianity","category-japan","category-religion","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\/70397","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\/2342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70405,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70397\/revisions\/70405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}