“Lawyers Lying and Shaming Japan” for 50 Years

New analysis asks if “lawyers lying” to produce “evidence” in recent dissolution order case is part of a communist coup in the courts, and Japan’s left targeting the Family Federation

Leftist Lawyers Lie and Shame Japan

Part 1 of analysis by Dr. Robert Kittel, Senior Advisor for the Asia Pacific Region of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, April 2025

See part 2

Japan is a beautiful nation with kind-hearted, honest people. The international image of Japan, justly so, is stellar. They are peace-loving people who follow the rule of law and live by democratic norms. Japanese are gracious and polite, almost overly so (in a good way). Trains and people are very punctual. They have a culture that emphasizes truthfulness, loyalty, courage, and self-control associated with the Bushido code [See editor’s note below], or more broadly the samurai spirit.

However, a strange miscarriage of justice is being attempted largely behind closed doors. It’s actually a communist coup in broad daylight.

On March 25, 2025, the Tokyo District Court granted the request by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) to dissolve and dismantle the Unification Church (a.k.a. Family Federation for World Peace and Unification).

In unprecedented legal maneuvering that violates statutes of the United Nations which Japan signed as well as its own established jurisprudence, the church is being stripped of its legal status, and – unless overturned or withdrawn – its assets and properties, including bank accounts, churches, schools, and possibly even cemeteries, will be confiscated and sold off by the government. The proceedings were full of irregularities and the outcome was draconian.

See Unification Church Dissolution in Japan: An In-Depth Analysis of a Wrong Decision. 3. Settlements and “Potential” Cases.

More importantly, Japan’s image is being tarnished.

Leftist lawyers from the so-called “National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales” (NNLASS) care little about Japan’s international identity or loss of face so important in the land of the rising sun. Their motivation, gleaned from the communist ideology and statements by key players in Japan, is to terminate the institution of the church, divide church families, and funnel Family Federation funds to themselves to fuel their leftist agenda. [See Lawyers Manipulating, Coercing, Lying]

These objectives, taken directly from the 1848 Communist Manifesto, are patently anti-Japanese and anti-religious. Karl Marx famously called religion “the opium of the people”. Less well-known, he also called for “the abolition of the family!” noting that “even the most radical [communists] flare up at this infamous proposal” (Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels, “The Communist Manifesto,” p. 427).

The church has a long and successful history of opposing communism. Rev. Moon, the church’s founder, had been imprisoned in a communist labor camp in North Korea for two years and eight months. He nearly died. He was liberated when 16 UN-backed nations defended South Korea against an unprovoked military invasion from the North backed by Russia and China.

As part of his religious ministry, Rev. Moon developed the most powerful, cutting-edge critique of communism which methodically dissects and exposes the numerous falsities of this materialistic ideology. In 1968 he established the International Federation for Victory over Communism (IFVOC).

In 1973, with Mrs. Moon by his side, Rev. Moon met former Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi (岸信介元), the grandfather of Shinzo Abe (安倍晋三). Moon and Kishi were allies in fighting communism and created a friendship that lasted generations.

Japan had become a “spy’s paradise” since espionage was not illegal. In 1978, Japanese IFVOC members were gathering 30 million signatures to support anti-spying legislation. That initiative ultimately failed to pass, but in the same year, the Japan Communist Party (JCP) lost the Governor’s seat in Kyoto Prefecture which it had held for nearly three decades.

The JCP Chairman at the time, Kenji Miyamoto (宮本 顕治), publicly declared a “holy war” to annihilate the IFVOC along with the Unification Church.

Since then, leftist lawyers have tried three times to have the church dissolved. Japanese courts rejected all three attempts. That is because Japanese law was clear: The church could be dissolved only based on criminal convictions and neither the church nor any of its leaders have ever been accused or convicted of any criminal offense. Criminal, not civil, law was the legal precedent for dissolution in Japan. This all changed on July 8, 2022, when Japan’s longest-serving prime minister and current member of its House of Representatives was gunned down on the streets of Nara, Japan.

The Unification Church, which had nothing to do with the murder, became the scapegoat of this terrible tragedy. The assassin, Tetsuya Yamagami (山上徹也), told police he had “a grudge” against the Unification Church because his mother had given it large donations in the early 2000s. Following civil litigation, the church agreed to return half of the mother’s donations, and Yamagami (never a member of the church) personally signed a legal document saying he released the church from any further claims.

This went largely unreported in the Japanese press. In the first months following Abe’s assassination, a relentless onslaught of more than 10,000 articles published in Japan’s print and electronic media attacked the church [Editor’s note: In 2015, the name Unification Church was in Japan changed to Family Federation for World Peace and Unification] with nearly 95% being negative. With only one side of the story being told, public opinion turned against the church which became the de facto culprit.

As it stands, Abe’s assassination is a crime without a criminal. The real assassin is Tetsuya Yamagami. He made the gun and pulled the trigger that killed Abe and was apprehended on the scene. Nevertheless, it has been nearly three years, and he has never seen a courtroom. Compare this to Ryūji Kimura (木村隆二) who tried to assassinate Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on 15th April 2023, nine months after Abe was killed.

In short order Kimura was tried, convicted, and handed a 10-year prison term. Having no criminal conviction in Abe’s assassination is oddly convenient for all parties pushing their false narratives. Meanwhile, the Unification Church stands wrongly accused in the court of public opinion and now in the Tokyo District Court.

With the truth hidden, NNLASS lawyers and Japan’s sensational media went into overdrive to heap public shock and blame on the church. This was a phenomenon stage-managed by the JCP in collusion with leftist mainstream media that tightly controlled their carefully scripted narrative. They had the support of Abe’s political foe, then-Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

However, one voice stood out, almost celebrating Abe’s demise. Japanese Communist Party Chairman Kazuo Shii boasted, “This time, we will go all the way until we get it right,” referring to their decades-old goal to destroy the church (Sunday Mainichi, November 6, 2022). This is their ultimate agenda.

Slightly edited for publishing purposes.

Continued in part 2.

Dr. Robert Kittel earned his Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut in 2004, specializing in family-value-based character education. He also holds a Master of Divinity degree from the Unification Theological Seminary, New York. ​Throughout his career, Dr. Kittel has been dedicated to promoting traditional family values, interfaith harmony, and youth education through his leadership roles in various organizations affiliated with the Unification Movement.

Featured image below: Japanese lawyers discussing. Illustration: Microsoft Designer Image Creator, 30th September 2024.

[Editor’s note: The Bushidō code (武士道, meaning “the way of the warrior”) is a traditional Japanese code of honor and moral principles that guided the samurai – the military nobility of feudal Japan. It’s not a single, universally codified set of rules, but rather a collection of ethical ideals shaped over centuries, especially influenced by Zen Buddhism, Shinto, and Confucianism.]

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