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Thank you for this video, I would love to put my over 30 years of experience in these religious misunderstandings, into the ability to prevent them and talk to some members of this church. Eves actions also in Hebrew were not why god condemned people, but because Adam was not responsible, and when asked why he ate the apple, replied to god that “the women you gave me provided the Apple”. Adam lacked the most critical attribute of a man, the ability to be responsible enough to admit his wrongs, to grow from mistakes and be truthful. This is from the origin text, before mistranslations came to be that were convenient for countries and political parties to use as a control mechanism. In addition Eve choosing the fruit chose understanding of the world, a better opportunity to know her creator and more over infinite leisure which is nice but not a true existence. Eve chose existence for us and so when God gave her to Adam he gave him a compass and companion to endure true reality. This church should be spoken to properly, I am not religious, in the Torah it is not necessary for gods love. Only how you treat others matters, and who you are! Work in these things to go to heaven and if there is no heaven, do these things still because it feels right to be good.
Oh God. Unification Church sounds bad. Then he says Sun Yun Moon. Oh no. They use brainwashing techniques and are a dangerous cult. I didn't know they were still around. I think they all got wiped out in the west. They're worse than Scientology.
Meshida-san, Japanese people need to stay away from the unification church! Please educate Japanese about this! Please "wake-up" Japanese people about this.
Yes. But I think Meshida should make more videos in Japanese. There are many people in Japan who, like Meshida, dislike the hypocrisy and contradictions of Japanese society, but wrongly assume that they are alone and feel afraid of speaking up against the infamous norms of society.
Thanks for the deep dive into such a complicated issue, Meshida-san. I learned about the Unification Church in a World Religions class and even then they sounded like bad news.
This is slavery and Unification Church should be immediately banned in Japan... wishing Japanese people had a safe and free life of such threats.... Thanks Meshida for bringing the awareness among people 🙏🏼😇
Good point Friend. Many of us Christians are brainwashed at a early age. I could see it happening and I went along with it. Boot Camp. You can then leave and become SPIRITUAL.
Im from Japan, and thank you for sharing the informative videos like this. Even though Ive been lived in Japan a long time but media like TV, and news did not talk about these topics. So, this kind of information was very interesting for me:)
I think the reason why activists who attacked this channel in the pretext of morality, were actually hired to silent Meshida for exposing these inconvenient truth.
You should not get your hope high. Even though Kishida may submit a request of "Article 81 Dissolution Order" to the court, the church can still defend themselves in the court. And the word "dissolution" of this order is misleading in that it merely removes the church's privilege of tax exemption, they can still operate in Japan and collect donations after being "dissolved".
I've been following this story on NHK, so thanks for explaining all this, it was really informative. Also thankyou for saying 'erection' instead of 'election'.
It's a special style of comedy, intellectual, sarcastic, and cheeky. Reminds me of the *early* Volker Pispers from Germany. Basically a critic of Big Tech/Banks/Politicians disguised as Comedy. Also I am reminded of *Wes Austin* from USA
"If you want to make money in this country, start a religion." Science-fiction author A.E. Van Voght to L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology...who listened. Meshida, you have guts, revealing what these people are doing.
Not like it's easy. If you go around left and right saying you are messiah than act like it and believe it. I bet you will have mental problem what the acting get real
Japan people have to start thinking for themselves and get rid of the corrupt government, including all kind of organizations such as this church. Parents should teach their kids properly, preventing the daughters to work odd jobs while encouraging the sons to develop the nation free from corruption.
Armando, I guess you are Korean. He can do whatever, but the Unification Church is by far the most dangerous of all. Close to Aum. I would suggest to keep talking about it, dissolving it forever, and deporting all those involved, including Korean trolls.
@@ryuukakhadijah7766 Soka Gakkai is kooky too. Here in America they pass themselves off as "True Buddhism" 😵💫. It used to really get under my skin. But that says more about me than it does them.
@@ArmandoRodriguez-im5pn Cult practitioners often look scary, right? 😵 They don't have this peaceful looking on their face, and their leaders usually look the scariest. I even saw this at some sects of sufism. That's totally not real sufism; the leader's face look like there's something evil in his heart 😵
@@ryuukakhadijah7766 I wouldn't call them evil. Just misguided. These are people that have never seen Buddhism before so they have no frame of reference. But if nobody says anything they will continue to think they are right. And that's creepy 😳
@@mochiiizxzx OMG 😭 At least you have that awakening and resistance to choose who want to spend the rest of your life with. Not someone I know😢 He didn't fight for me coz Im not a second gen and he just waited for his mom to look for a wife for him 😢Just went to Japan last month and got my heart broken😭He is kinda stoic, I guess how you act when you are brainwashed. His mom was calling us every now and then while I was having my vacation in Japan.
The UC scandal dominated Japan mainstream media for mouths. Unfortunately non-Japanese media don't seem to be interested in the follow up of the story, such as the probe of UC by the Education Department and new laws of regulating UC's fundraising malpractices.
People who wish to control others always have to deal in guilt and shame; usually unearned guilt and shame. Those who advocate "original sin" ideas are not limited to the religious, although at root all of them are "mystics". The "God" they demand subservience to just changes: Christ, the environment, your "brother", "science", and so on. People who are after power seize upon altruistic doctrines because of what it helps them accomplish, not because they actually believe. Still, I'm not sure what's worse. The power-lusting non-believer, or the "I need to be led" believer who empowers them.
This is some real problem in so many countries. Thank you for sharing in a such light humorous way the real problem lurking behind. Thoroughly enjoyed with some real insight.
Which is somehow worse than average weebs by being a religious cult formed by weebs that are also involved with politicians, thats too much bad things for one sentence.
I live in japan and near home i have one unification church just by 5 minutes walking. Very strange feeling when i walk around, and the people in the surroundings they looks like abduced when they go out.
they are brainwashed. wish I could help them coz I know someone who was so devoted on that cult who has so many strict rules and beliefs. he wouldnt fight for our love just coz their is a fixed marriage system and im not born a "second gen". honestly my heart is broken coz they are just victims but he wont help himself to go out coz its really hard that you have to get indoctrinated
I shoud've watched it early on 10 days ago. Oh Meshida, talks about a shady business organization who calls themselves a "religion" while also wearing that kind of t-shirt, pai-pai the forbidden fruit of the garden of eden
I knew about The Unification Church from documentaries made by VICE. I thought The Unification Church aka Moonies were only a thing in the US and South Korea. Had no idea they also had a large presence in Japan. It also reminds me of an episode from the first season of Mob Pyscho 100 about the "LOL" cult is that a parody of Unification Church in particular or just New religions/shinshūkyō in general? Also, in the manga Oyasumi Punpun there is another religious cult that is super weird...
This is mind boggling! I thank you for sharing this tho it breaks my heart. I hope people will wise up and explore some history of Kamakura Era....Honen, Shinran and Dogen etc. Why run to hell when heaven is at your feet where you are?
Massive bravery points for this video! Religion is a very hard topic to cover because of it's deep history. Be sure of this.... Anything that has roots to Power and Influence will always be sought after by corruption. It was definitely good to hear the topic covered from the Japanese side.
Hello, I just found your channel, and it's interesting that you talk about this; have you ever made a video about the cult that brainwashed Toshl (X JAPAN Vocalist)?
What a wild situation. If someone told me yesterday that Japan has a serious religious organization that deeply questions their national pride and identity and actively works on subverting them, and not only that, it's also supported by many politicians, including late Shinzo Abe I'd tell them to piss off. In my corner of the world we simply just give the church upwards of 150 million Euros (compared to Japan we are a pretty poor country) per year and in turn let them infiltrate and influence our politics, education, police and army. Go figure, it's almost like this is a universal cultural phenomenon. That being that various swines and opportunists will abuse any kind of personal belief, problem or vulnerability that people have to turn a profit or to consolidate power.
Why anime and the "adult entertainment" is horrific on every level and in normalization tactic and outside of drawn media? It all needs abolishing and/or being brought down.
Meanwhile, Japanese women will still continue to marry Korean men. :P Jokes aside, organizations like the Unification Church are a cancer to Korea as well. No one supports them.
Thank you Meshida-san for sharing all these useful information with us. Personally I wasn't even aware of the existence of this religion, let alone its relation to politics. I feel like your channel is a great source to gain profound knowledge about the Japanese society while enjoying a good laugh at the same time. Not many people find way to archive that. Keep up the amazing work, Meshida-san! And by the way, nice shirt. 😂 Care to merchandise it?
Thank you for discussing this topic, which is not really talked about in international media in detail. I have recently subscribed to your channel and all your videos are very insightful. Thank you for making these videos and brining them to us. Your stand-up comedy is also very funny. Thank you for sharing videos of those as well.
Perfect ending. Reminds me of the boiling frog analogy, how these cults indoctrinate their slaves gradually into accepting their gradually worsening living hells as the norm.
I went to some Korean churches in China in the 2010s, I wondered why they were so secretive and didn’t allow Chinese people. And they were very controlling, they’d start acting rude if a member missed church service a few times. I heard they’re now no more coz the Chinese government cracked them down.
Don't label it as a Korean conspiracy because they don't represent Korea. The Korean public don't support the Unification Church or any other "Saibi" (or Pseudo) churches.
@@joseph3036 Glad they did that to be honest, so that nobody would have to suffer anymore from them, let alone being in China and discriminating the Chinese from even going just sounds like the stupidest way to dig your own grave regardless…
@@elosoderusia4598 They were not really discriminating against Chinese though. They were just trying to stay under the radar of the Chinese government for as long as possible, coz every local was a potential spy.
I grew up in Korea but I found out about reunification church in my late 20s and also the fact that founding members are Koreans. Same goes for Sewol Ferry(ferry that sank taking mayy lives) owner who is also a founder of pseudo congregation. I am surprised to find many fabricated organized religions are from where I grew up in. Also surprised to find they are quite influential.
While the assasination of Abe is a sad tragedy, it says a lot that this was necessary to shed light on such a huge problem. The political influence of the UC is incredibly scary and shameful for the JP government.
Meshida San, Thank you for your explanation, at least I can understand what links to Shinzo Abe and unification church. But you need to be careful as well. From Malaysia.
It's weird that people would actually believe their country is a devil and the country to their side is literally god or whatever. It's strange why they wouldn't question something that is clearly made that way to ruin them. It's like telling a kid that you'll show him a cool game if he gives you his phone for a day without telling anyone. But this one works with adults. lol
And here I thought this dance of interests, greed, power and manipulation of people's naivety and faith only happened in my own country... how naive I was, in the end.
Well I heard about all this kind of sect frauds in Japan. But didn't know the name nor their origin. I see the sect has now the power to even influence Japanese Politics if I understood you there Meshida. Thats really concerning if true.
This was very well done. I love watching you grow! I'm glad you took this risk but be careful! Cults don't like people exposing them and this one sounds particularly evil.
These people are arguably more nefarious than aum shinrikyo And that part about the leader impersonating the emperor in a skit is not cool. Most luxurious hole was a great line 🤣
Honestily the tunnel would be more legit if they werent using it in the way they are. There are potentiol other similar projects proposed in other countries with a similar ammount of undersea length, but they are clearly not really invested in it. There is potentiol to actually build amazing innovations like that but sadly scammers make the public distrust the real innovators
this is surprising Meshida-san, I watch other Japanese youtubers about religion history in Japan, and realized that both Shintoism and Buddhism have caused a lot of damage to Japanese society during Sengoku era and world war era, and now surprisingly there are many Japanese who are still believe strongly to Christianity after all that, and even worse top rank politicians also take part in it....this shows that Koreans are not weak, if you (Japanese) are not turning into fans of their idols, then they'll turn you into a unification believers
The reason why Japan was able to penetration Korea from the 1890s to 1910 was because it was still suffering from the damage of the Japanese invasions in 1592. The prince regent of Korea, the Taewaggun, used all the money from the treasury that could have modernized Korea in 1885, was used instead to rebuild the Joseon grand palace in Seoul, the same grand palace that was burned down during the Japanese invasion of 1592.
I've long thought the Shogun who booted out the Christians had the right idea. If they had achieved a strong foothold, Spain, England, and France would have used that pretext to invade.
I mean… I guess it depends on context. At the time the line between Christian/Catholic is blurred. A lot of people lump the two together but there are a lot of key differences. The big one is Catholicism tends to rely a lot on idols such as the image of Jesus Christ. “Pray to this image and you are saved” Where as with Christianity it’s not about the image of Jesus but why he died and what it means for your heart. A Christain’s heart should be one that genuinely wishes to serve the people around them, yeah, it’s an ideal because we as people don’t like to willingly serve but that’s what the Christian belief actually should be. The Catholic side of things it’s more like, if you serve and do this much then you get this much as a reward in heaven. But… that’s just not what Christ asks of us. It’s not about what we can get but rather what we can give. Anyway, to expound on that. Here’s where the Catholic idol of the image of Christ comes into play. Because the Shogunate had those plates that they would have Japanese Christains step on to renounce their faith. The thing is, that plate has the image of Christ… but it’s not Christ. Living as a Christian doesn’t mean going through the rituals or anything it’s where you invest your love. However, I think the missionaries of the day kinda screwed up getting that across due to language barrier issues. Anyway, I do agree with you. Spain, England, and France would have used Christianity as an excuse for conquest as they always have. It’s unfortunate that Christian beliefs have been used for horrible atrocities but such is history. However, the other side of the issue here isn’t so clean either. The Shogunate would hold out very brutal executions on anyone who would call themselves Christian. They knew they couldn’t out right kill these people so they torchered them until they renounced their faith weather it was blending them out, removing fingers, or crucifying them. Political power corrupts. Doesn’t matter who it is. Because low and behold. Once Japan wrapped up their internal battles they decided to go on their own conquest. But this time in the name of their religion and god the emperor (really the shogun but the emperor is who the people looked to) Hence why the founding fathers in the United States pushed for separating of Church and State. That’s my thoughts on that.
I remember reading a book years ago called In A Sunburnt Country written by Bill Bryson. In one chapter, he tells of his time in the Australian bush country. He talked about an area that was owned by a doomsday cult. It was alleged that the area was a testing ground for a weapon of mass destruction. Some thought it was nuclear weapon. But there was evidence of any radiation in the area. It was also alleged that the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo was the same people who had detonated the weapon in Australia. Shinzo Abe will be missed.
Unification church seems to be similar to Iglesia ni kristo (church of christ) of philippines in forcing donations. Some people might disagree with me but my parents knew some people lost their livelihood because of big donations.
As a Christian myself that studies the Bible and the book of Genesis. Knowing that there is a “church” that teaches Japan and Korea is an “Adam and eve nation” make me wanna look through my Bible like “did I miss a page”. lol thanks meshida-San you’ve gave me new knowledge about a “church” I’ve never heard about.
Same bro! Not to mention we “fell in adam” not “eve” anyways. That’s why our Lord is called the “second adam.” The claims of cults like this are so outrageous that you assume no one would buy it, unfortunately in biblically illiterate cultures this is very common to go unchallenged.
I'm sorry if my question sounds rude, but isn't what you just described exactly how faith works? Probably in Korea or Japan there will be someone questioning your Bible and wondering how anyone can read anything other than *their* Bible.
@@-shikajin-4078 your question and convlusion may follow if truth is relative, but it is not. Justin is pointing out the internal consistency of this churches worldview in inconsistent. We know this by internal critique and from the knowledge we have derived from scripture which is that all things true are consistent. If author a writes a book and interpreter b comes and declares “in this book the koreans are the best!” When the book makes no mention of korea being the best, this is inconsistent and misses the whole purpose of the scriptures which are consistent within themselves as the word of God. Everyone has a standard for truth, and it may not be fun, but you must self examine your standards for truth. Are they subjective? Do they hold under scrutiny? Did you fall into the logical fallacy recently of believing whatever governmental health departments declared as truth because you assumed them as your standard? Christ is the way the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through Him.
@@-shikajin-4078 sure everyone has an interpretation and some people use different Bibles. But this is cult is so wacky it makes no sense to any translation. It’s just butchery of the text and reading into things that aren’t there. But maybe I’m biased who knows? I’ve never seen their “Bible” before so I don’t know what’s in it.
Hope this video will enlighten many japanese citizen and not to follow what these hyprocrites, self-proclaimed beings of what they said... I don't have enough information about politics or economy but maybe this could be one of those factor (small chance) to Japan's economic slowdown.
Great video! You explain the situation very well about the subject and I understand the topic better now. You gave a better explaination thn the media. ありがとうございます。
I think this could be much more troublesome than Aum Shinrikyo. Because the government of the time was hostile to Aum Shinrikyo and wanted to eliminate it, but the Unification Church is in complete collude with the current government, and politicians are reluctant to eliminate the Unification Church.
Thank you for this informative video, Meshidasan. I'm sure it took a lot of courage to report on this issue. This "religious corporation" sounds very cynical and unchristian to me... The "moral flexibility" of some conservative politicians is unfortunately not very surprising. Is it possible for the state to take away the Unification Church's status as a religious corporation? Because the way members are segregated in Japanese and non-Japanese and extorted sounds more like a vicious sect or a mafia.
Its kind of scary how the church controls the minds of their members. They are justifying now that they donations got lower and some voluntary. If the assassination didnt happen maybe this wouldnt bring light to the world. It's a high controlled group. They ruin the member's minds coz I have a special friend who is in that cult and I somehow experienced it myself.
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Thank you for this video, I would love to put my over 30 years of experience in these religious misunderstandings, into the ability to prevent them and talk to some members of this church. Eves actions also in Hebrew were not why god condemned people, but because Adam was not responsible, and when asked why he ate the apple, replied to god that “the women you gave me provided the Apple”. Adam lacked the most critical attribute of a man, the ability to be responsible enough to admit his wrongs, to grow from mistakes and be truthful. This is from the origin text, before mistranslations came to be that were convenient for countries and political parties to use as a control mechanism. In addition Eve choosing the fruit chose understanding of the world, a better opportunity to know her creator and more over infinite leisure which is nice but not a true existence. Eve chose existence for us and so when God gave her to Adam he gave him a compass and companion to endure true reality. This church should be spoken to properly, I am not religious, in the Torah it is not necessary for gods love. Only how you treat others matters, and who you are! Work in these things to go to heaven and if there is no heaven, do these things still because it feels right to be good.
Oh God. Unification Church sounds bad. Then he says Sun Yun Moon. Oh no. They use brainwashing techniques and are a dangerous cult. I didn't know they were still around. I think they all got wiped out in the west. They're worse than Scientology.
Meshida-san,
Japanese people need to stay away from the unification church! Please educate Japanese about this! Please "wake-up" Japanese people about this.
Bansai!!!!!🌀
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Thanks Meshida-san. I think what you did was very brave. Japanese people should wake up from that madness.
Yes. But I think Meshida should make more videos in Japanese. There are many people in Japan who, like Meshida, dislike the hypocrisy and contradictions of Japanese society, but wrongly assume that they are alone and feel afraid of speaking up against the infamous norms of society.
Thanks for the deep dive into such a complicated issue, Meshida-san. I learned about the Unification Church in a World Religions class and even then they sounded like bad news.
This is slavery and Unification Church should be immediately banned in Japan...
wishing Japanese people had a safe and free life of such threats....
Thanks Meshida for bringing the awareness among people 🙏🏼😇
Good point Friend. Many of us Christians are brainwashed at a early age. I could see it happening and I went along with it. Boot Camp.
You can then leave and become SPIRITUAL.
'Slavery is a choice' Kanye West.
we must burn down unification church!
@@Wangash18 When I read that i thought it was a recent statement. with everything he is doing rn, somebody needs to go get kanye.
I totally agree! BANNED THEM JAPAN!!!
Im from Japan, and thank you for sharing the informative videos like this. Even though Ive been lived in Japan a long time but media like TV, and news did not talk about these topics. So, this kind of information was very interesting for me:)
Why they Don't talk?
@@viniciusmartins8733 Because South Korea is involved in this issue.
I think the reason why activists who attacked this channel in the pretext of morality, were actually hired to silent Meshida for exposing these inconvenient truth.
If that garbage of Unification Church is not dissolved, someone needs to push to bring all those involved in the government down. Urgently!
You should not get your hope high. Even though Kishida may submit a request of "Article 81 Dissolution Order" to the court, the church can still defend themselves in the court. And the word "dissolution" of this order is misleading in that it merely removes the church's privilege of tax exemption, they can still operate in Japan and collect donations after being "dissolved".
I've been following this story on NHK, so thanks for explaining all this, it was really informative. Also thankyou for saying 'erection' instead of 'election'.
Even though Meshida San is a comedian, he delivers his videos in a very informative and well constructed matter. This man really does his research.
It's a special style of comedy, intellectual, sarcastic, and cheeky. Reminds me of the *early* Volker Pispers from Germany. Basically a critic of Big Tech/Banks/Politicians disguised as Comedy. Also I am reminded of *Wes Austin* from USA
"If you want to make money in this country, start a religion."
Science-fiction author A.E. Van Voght to L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology...who listened. Meshida, you have guts, revealing what these people are doing.
Not like it's easy. If you go around left and right saying you are messiah than act like it and believe it. I bet you will have mental problem what the acting get real
Thank you for making a serious subject fun to watch.
As a former member, I can say that you hit the nail on the head quite well. You earned a subscriber :)
I like how he starts off the video with, "Nowadays."
Japan people have to start thinking for themselves and get rid of the corrupt government, including all kind of organizations such as this church. Parents should teach their kids properly, preventing the daughters to work odd jobs while encouraging the sons to develop the nation free from corruption.
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This was AWESOME. do more cults. A deeper dive into 🙂 Happy Science, Soka Gakkai, Mountain Cult 🤣
dude, that may get him assassinated. He can't go after all of the cults.
Armando, I guess you are Korean.
He can do whatever, but the Unification Church is by far the most dangerous of all. Close to Aum.
I would suggest to keep talking about it, dissolving it forever, and deporting all those involved, including Korean trolls.
@@ryuukakhadijah7766 Soka Gakkai is kooky too. Here in America they pass themselves off as "True Buddhism" 😵💫. It used to really get under my skin. But that says more about me than it does them.
@@ArmandoRodriguez-im5pn Cult practitioners often look scary, right? 😵 They don't have this peaceful looking on their face, and their leaders usually look the scariest. I even saw this at some sects of sufism. That's totally not real sufism; the leader's face look like there's something evil in his heart 😵
@@ryuukakhadijah7766 I wouldn't call them evil. Just misguided. These are people that have never seen Buddhism before so they have no frame of reference. But if nobody says anything they will continue to think they are right. And that's creepy 😳
Domo Arigato... You've described a difficult situation that eats into families and leaves many wounds... told in your usual disarming way ! ❤
I'm grateful for leaving this group
@user-0X5673 good for you that you werent part of their fixed marriages
@@ljcruz1 my mom almost want me to have the match but I immediately said no .. never
@@mochiiizxzx OMG 😭 At least you have that awakening and resistance to choose who want to spend the rest of your life with. Not someone I know😢 He didn't fight for me coz Im not a second gen and he just waited for his mom to look for a wife for him 😢Just went to Japan last month and got my heart broken😭He is kinda stoic, I guess how you act when you are brainwashed. His mom was calling us every now and then while I was having my vacation in Japan.
Thanks for shedding light on this matter. Mass media barely scratches the surface of subjects like this.
The UC scandal dominated Japan mainstream media for mouths. Unfortunately non-Japanese media don't seem to be interested in the follow up of the story, such as the probe of UC by the Education Department and new laws of regulating UC's fundraising malpractices.
People who wish to control others always have to deal in guilt and shame; usually unearned guilt and shame.
Those who advocate "original sin" ideas are not limited to the religious, although at root all of them are "mystics".
The "God" they demand subservience to just changes: Christ, the environment, your "brother", "science", and so on.
People who are after power seize upon altruistic doctrines because of what it helps them accomplish, not because they actually believe.
Still, I'm not sure what's worse. The power-lusting non-believer, or the "I need to be led" believer who empowers them.
This is some real problem in so many countries. Thank you for sharing in a such light humorous way the real problem lurking behind. Thoroughly enjoyed with some real insight.
I had no idea that Ginza was famous for luxurious holes! I will look for them next weekend and try to take pictures! 🤓
The unification Church basically is an organization that is formed by korean weebs to get their own japanese waifus
Which is somehow worse than average weebs by being a religious cult formed by weebs that are also involved with politicians, thats too much bad things for one sentence.
No?
It was formed during colonization of Japan so no way they wanted Japanese girls
It was founded as a CIA anticommunist movement and Ronald Reagan gave them carte blanche in the US. THEY ARE PURE EVIL
No, they just have branch churches in Japan. Most of their overseas churches are in the US. They are not weebs. Weird statement.
I live in japan and near home i have one unification church just by 5 minutes walking. Very strange feeling when i walk around, and the people in the surroundings they looks like abduced when they go out.
they are brainwashed. wish I could help them coz I know someone who was so devoted on that cult who has so many strict rules and beliefs. he wouldnt fight for our love just coz their is a fixed marriage system and im not born a
"second gen". honestly my heart is broken coz they are just victims but he wont help himself to go out coz its really hard that you have to get indoctrinated
I cant belived organization like this still exist in these days and age
I shoud've watched it early on 10 days ago. Oh Meshida, talks about a shady business organization who calls themselves a "religion" while also wearing that kind of t-shirt, pai-pai the forbidden fruit of the garden of eden
This is a true horror story... Thank you for the video, Meshida-san
I knew about The Unification Church from documentaries made by VICE. I thought The Unification Church aka Moonies were only a thing in the US and South Korea. Had no idea they also had a large presence in Japan. It also reminds me of an episode from the first season of Mob Pyscho 100 about the "LOL" cult is that a parody of Unification Church in particular or just New religions/shinshūkyō in general? Also, in the manga Oyasumi Punpun there is another religious cult that is super weird...
This is mind boggling! I thank you for sharing this tho it breaks my heart. I hope people will wise up and explore some history of Kamakura Era....Honen, Shinran and Dogen etc. Why run to hell when heaven is at your feet where you are?
Massive bravery points for this video! Religion is a very hard topic to cover because of it's deep history. Be sure of this.... Anything that has roots to Power and Influence will always be sought after by corruption. It was definitely good to hear the topic covered from the Japanese side.
Yeah Meshida. Best TH-cam channel ever covering this type of topics ever👍. Best Japanese comedian ever.
Hello, I just found your channel, and it's interesting that you talk about this; have you ever made a video about the cult that brainwashed Toshl (X JAPAN Vocalist)?
What a wild situation. If someone told me yesterday that Japan has a serious religious organization that deeply questions their national pride and identity and actively works on subverting them, and not only that, it's also supported by many politicians, including late Shinzo Abe I'd tell them to piss off.
In my corner of the world we simply just give the church upwards of 150 million Euros (compared to Japan we are a pretty poor country) per year and in turn let them infiltrate and influence our politics, education, police and army.
Go figure, it's almost like this is a universal cultural phenomenon. That being that various swines and opportunists will abuse any kind of personal belief, problem or vulnerability that people have to turn a profit or to consolidate power.
You are so funny and informative. Best of both worlds. Amazing. Thank you so much and keep it up!
Wow. Very good segment on a difficult subject. Thank you!
Unfortunately cults are good business in Japan and it's unbelievable how many of them are here and that something to this extend still exists .
Why anime and the "adult entertainment" is horrific on every level and in normalization tactic and outside of drawn media? It all needs abolishing and/or being brought down.
You are amazing to do comedy in 2nd language, that takes a lot of courage, skill and talent.
thanks and keep it up ❤
From Aum Shinrikyo to the Unification Church. It's just sad that there's a lot of cultists in Japan.
Fascinating as always, Meshida- Sensei. Thanks for your perspective on this cult.
There is one way to reverse the master-slave relation regarding Japan and South Korea: labeling South Korea as A DAMNATION
Meanwhile, Japanese women will still continue to marry Korean men. :P
Jokes aside, organizations like the Unification Church are a cancer to Korea as well.
No one supports them.
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Thank you Meshida-san for sharing all these useful information with us. Personally I wasn't even aware of the existence of this religion, let alone its relation to politics. I feel like your channel is a great source to gain profound knowledge about the Japanese society while enjoying a good laugh at the same time. Not many people find way to archive that.
Keep up the amazing work, Meshida-san!
And by the way, nice shirt. 😂 Care to merchandise it?
Conserving money and power is something that practically all politicians do
i remember one of my students telling me about this a few months back. Im curious about the story of the happy science organization as well.
I like that you don't avoid serious complicated topics like this.
You make a grim topic humorous! Very funny jokes!
Thank you meshida san , for discussing this deep issue , we support you 👍👍👍
Matthew 24:5 “For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many”
many videos about Unification Church and yours seems to be the most comprehensible among them all.
Thank you for discussing this topic, which is not really talked about in international media in detail. I have recently subscribed to your channel and all your videos are very insightful. Thank you for making these videos and brining them to us. Your stand-up comedy is also very funny. Thank you for sharing videos of those as well.
Perfect ending. Reminds me of the boiling frog analogy, how these cults indoctrinate their slaves gradually into accepting their gradually worsening living hells as the norm.
The Unification Church sure sounds like the mega churches of nowadays.
So am not surprised Meshida-San.
you are doing very good presentation, Meshida San !
very informative and u are still funny too😆
I'm impressed at how objective he is. I would've suspected it's some Korean conspiracy going on.
I went to some Korean churches in China in the 2010s, I wondered why they were so secretive and didn’t allow Chinese people. And they were very controlling, they’d start acting rude if a member missed church service a few times. I heard they’re now no more coz the Chinese government cracked them down.
Don't label it as a Korean conspiracy because they don't represent Korea.
The Korean public don't support the Unification Church or any other "Saibi" (or Pseudo) churches.
@@joseph3036 Glad they did that to be honest, so that nobody would have to suffer anymore from them, let alone being in China and discriminating the Chinese from even going just sounds like the stupidest way to dig your own grave regardless…
@@elosoderusia4598 They were not really discriminating against Chinese though. They were just trying to stay under the radar of the Chinese government for as long as possible, coz every local was a potential spy.
I grew up in Korea but I found out about reunification church in my late 20s and also the fact that founding members are Koreans. Same goes for Sewol Ferry(ferry that sank taking mayy lives) owner who is also a founder of pseudo congregation. I am surprised to find many fabricated organized religions are from where I grew up in. Also surprised to find they are quite influential.
I'd really like to know where Meshida-sama gets his shirts they're always so funny! 🤣
えいごじょうず！ love your stuff, good job! much love from an American in Gunma
While the assasination of Abe is a sad tragedy, it says a lot that this was necessary to shed light on such a huge problem. The political influence of the UC is incredibly scary and shameful for the JP government.
Meshida San,
Thank you for your explanation, at least I can understand what links to Shinzo Abe and unification church.
But you need to be careful as well. From Malaysia.
You are tackling a very sensitive topic. You might upset them and make retaliation against you. Your bravery is commendable. More power.
It's weird that people would actually believe their country is a devil and the country to their side is literally god or whatever. It's strange why they wouldn't question something that is clearly made that way to ruin them. It's like telling a kid that you'll show him a cool game if he gives you his phone for a day without telling anyone. But this one works with adults. lol
And here I thought this dance of interests, greed, power and manipulation of people's naivety and faith only happened in my own country... how naive I was, in the end.
Extremely informative, especially to see the modern situation and how connected everything is.
13:30 Meshida says something confusing about First Kitchen.
How can I tell if I'm in a regular FK as opposed to FK Hell?
U r dead serious sharing this with your viewers 👍 👏 🍻 🙇♂️
“Dark side”? It’s ALL DARK
Can you make a video on “Happy Science” Religion too?
Very well explained! Thank you!
Well I heard about all this kind of sect frauds in Japan. But didn't know the name nor their origin. I see the sect has now the power to even influence Japanese Politics if I understood you there Meshida. Thats really concerning if true.
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Thank you for speaking about this in English. In America we have a similar problem with private military organizations
I like your shirt Meshida-san, keep up the great content
This was very well done. I love watching you grow! I'm glad you took this risk but be careful! Cults don't like people exposing them and this one sounds particularly evil.
Love your channel. I lived in Japan during the Shows period. Learn't Japanese writing. Married a Japanese. Wish I had your channel back then
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These people are arguably more nefarious than aum shinrikyo
And that part about the leader impersonating the emperor in a skit is not cool.
Most luxurious hole was a great line 🤣
They should be sued out of existence.
Honestily the tunnel would be more legit if they werent using it in the way they are. There are potentiol other similar projects proposed in other countries with a similar ammount of undersea length, but they are clearly not really invested in it. There is potentiol to actually build amazing innovations like that but sadly scammers make the public distrust the real innovators
Holy...! Their believers sold flowers?
Anyone remember what Aerith was doing at the start of Final Fantasy VII?
this is surprising Meshida-san, I watch other Japanese youtubers about religion history in Japan, and realized that both Shintoism and Buddhism have caused a lot of damage to Japanese society during Sengoku era and world war era, and now surprisingly there are many Japanese who are still believe strongly to Christianity after all that, and even worse top rank politicians also take part in it....this shows that Koreans are not weak, if you (Japanese) are not turning into fans of their idols, then they'll turn you into a unification believers
The reason why Japan was able to penetration Korea from the 1890s to 1910 was because it was still suffering from the damage of the Japanese invasions in 1592. The prince regent of Korea, the Taewaggun, used all the money from the treasury that could have modernized Korea in 1885, was used instead to rebuild the Joseon grand palace in Seoul, the same grand palace that was burned down during the Japanese invasion of 1592.
Unification Church is a heretical cult. It certainly isn't orthodox Christianity.
I've long thought the Shogun who booted out the Christians had the right idea. If they had achieved a strong foothold, Spain, England, and France would have used that pretext to invade.
Those who believe in Christianity are Dum Primates.
I mean… I guess it depends on context. At the time the line between Christian/Catholic is blurred. A lot of people lump the two together but there are a lot of key differences. The big one is Catholicism tends to rely a lot on idols such as the image of Jesus Christ. “Pray to this image and you are saved” Where as with Christianity it’s not about the image of Jesus but why he died and what it means for your heart. A Christain’s heart should be one that genuinely wishes to serve the people around them, yeah, it’s an ideal because we as people don’t like to willingly serve but that’s what the Christian belief actually should be. The Catholic side of things it’s more like, if you serve and do this much then you get this much as a reward in heaven. But… that’s just not what Christ asks of us. It’s not about what we can get but rather what we can give.
Anyway, to expound on that. Here’s where the Catholic idol of the image of Christ comes into play. Because the Shogunate had those plates that they would have Japanese Christains step on to renounce their faith. The thing is, that plate has the image of Christ… but it’s not Christ. Living as a Christian doesn’t mean going through the rituals or anything it’s where you invest your love. However, I think the missionaries of the day kinda screwed up getting that across due to language barrier issues.
Anyway, I do agree with you. Spain, England, and France would have used Christianity as an excuse for conquest as they always have. It’s unfortunate that Christian beliefs have been used for horrible atrocities but such is history. However, the other side of the issue here isn’t so clean either. The Shogunate would hold out very brutal executions on anyone who would call themselves Christian. They knew they couldn’t out right kill these people so they torchered them until they renounced their faith weather it was blending them out, removing fingers, or crucifying them. Political power corrupts. Doesn’t matter who it is. Because low and behold. Once Japan wrapped up their internal battles they decided to go on their own conquest. But this time in the name of their religion and god the emperor (really the shogun but the emperor is who the people looked to) Hence why the founding fathers in the United States pushed for separating of Church and State. That’s my thoughts on that.
I remember reading a book years ago called In A Sunburnt Country written by Bill Bryson. In one chapter, he tells of his time in the Australian bush country. He talked about an area that was owned by a doomsday cult. It was alleged that the area was a testing ground for a weapon of mass destruction. Some thought it was nuclear weapon. But there was evidence of any radiation in the area. It was also alleged that the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo was the same people who had detonated the weapon in Australia.
Shinzo Abe will be missed.
Unification church seems to be similar to Iglesia ni kristo (church of christ) of philippines in forcing donations. Some people might disagree with me but my parents knew some people lost their livelihood because of big donations.
Japan belongs to the Kami, not this Abrahamic Demiurge.
Make sure they never set root.
Need to find more bars of Pai-Pai signal near me. 🤣
As a Christian myself that studies the Bible and the book of Genesis. Knowing that there is a “church” that teaches Japan and Korea is an “Adam and eve nation” make me wanna look through my Bible like “did I miss a page”. lol thanks meshida-San you’ve gave me new knowledge about a “church” I’ve never heard about.
Same bro! Not to mention we “fell in adam” not “eve” anyways. That’s why our Lord is called the “second adam.”
The claims of cults like this are so outrageous that you assume no one would buy it, unfortunately in biblically illiterate cultures this is very common to go unchallenged.
I'm sorry if my question sounds rude, but isn't what you just described exactly how faith works?
Probably in Korea or Japan there will be someone questioning your Bible and wondering how anyone can read anything other than *their* Bible.
@@-shikajin-4078 your question and convlusion may follow if truth is relative, but it is not. Justin is pointing out the internal consistency of this churches worldview in inconsistent. We know this by internal critique and from the knowledge we have derived from scripture which is that all things true are consistent. If author a writes a book and interpreter b comes and declares “in this book the koreans are the best!” When the book makes no mention of korea being the best, this is inconsistent and misses the whole purpose of the scriptures which are consistent within themselves as the word of God.
Everyone has a standard for truth, and it may not be fun, but you must self examine your standards for truth. Are they subjective? Do they hold under scrutiny? Did you fall into the logical fallacy recently of believing whatever governmental health departments declared as truth because you assumed them as your standard?
Christ is the way the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through Him.
@@-shikajin-4078 sure everyone has an interpretation and some people use different Bibles. But this is cult is so wacky it makes no sense to any translation. It’s just butchery of the text and reading into things that aren’t there. But maybe I’m biased who knows? I’ve never seen their “Bible” before so I don’t know what’s in it.
Absolutely true, if anything Palestine and Syria should be Adam and Eve nations given christianity originated in that part of the world. Haha.
I love how in the midst of a serious topic, this guy can sneak in a mischief out of nowhere. Like, I almost died at 3:34 🤣🤣🤣
Aum Shinrikyo, Happy Science, and this! Quite the cults you have there.
The Koreans are very good at creating addictive products. Food, entertainment, songs and... religion too.
So are the Japanese
@@zennoix9984 yes, but in different things, not the same things.
Seem like japan have to rebanned christanity again
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So it’s basically the Japanese version of the Church of Scientology it seems
Its originally Korean and there are many Moonies (that is what they are called) in the USA and Europe as well.
More like the Korean version of Mormons.
I think Japanese catholic church fits better.
@@mudra5114 apparently they're also involved with arms dealers in Latin America.
Hope this video will enlighten many japanese citizen and not to follow what these hyprocrites, self-proclaimed beings of what they said... I don't have enough information about politics or economy but maybe this could be one of those factor (small chance) to Japan's economic slowdown.
You are more fit to be a Sensei! Your way of speaking is very nice.
As a Malaysian with devout Catholic, there is not way the religion to do that. This is power hunger peoples 🤬
Don't let your culture and civilization destroy.
Thank you very much for bringing this topic to light🙏🏻
I hope that such pseudo-religions will outlive itselfs🙏🏻
The Moonies?... I honestly didn't know they were still around.
Me: reading manga on aggregate website
Also me: why the heck there's a unification church ad here?
Dang, your content just got Real 👏 Good job
Great video! You explain the situation very well about the subject and I understand the topic better now. You gave a better explaination thn the media. ありがとうございます。
This is like the Aum Shinrikyo all over again.
I think this could be much more troublesome than Aum Shinrikyo. Because the government of the time was hostile to Aum Shinrikyo and wanted to eliminate it, but the Unification Church is in complete collude with the current government, and politicians are reluctant to eliminate the Unification Church.
As long as the head of a church thinks he's a reincarnation of a god it's bound to go loonie down the road.
This is how comedy should be.
Ngl, that "50000 yen = 1mm" idea is pure genius from a manipulation point of view.
Lol, I thought the lady in the thumbnail was Mako Komuro wearing that mask. I was like, "First moving to New York, then joining a cult?"
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Thank you for this informative video, Meshidasan. I'm sure it took a lot of courage to report on this issue. This "religious corporation" sounds very cynical and unchristian to me... The "moral flexibility" of some conservative politicians is unfortunately not very surprising.
Is it possible for the state to take away the Unification Church's status as a religious corporation? Because the way members are segregated in Japanese and non-Japanese and extorted sounds more like a vicious sect or a mafia.
Its kind of scary how the church controls the minds of their members. They are justifying now that they donations got lower and some voluntary. If the assassination didnt happen maybe this wouldnt bring light to the world. It's a high controlled group. They ruin the member's minds coz I have a special friend who is in that cult and I somehow experienced it myself.