# Court in Japan orders "Moonies" to disband, strips the church of its tax-exempt status **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 25, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/court-in-japan-orders-moonies-to-disband-strips-the-church-of-its-tax-exempt-status/1016090 "2025-03-25T13:24:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/court-in-japan-orders-moonies-to-disband-strips-the-church-of-its-tax-exempt-status/1016090/1 "2025-03-25T13:24:11Z")
I don’t know much about the Moonies apart from their mass wedding mentioned in the article and that there were possibly some connections between them and the shooting of Abe. They also own some newspapers such as the Washington Times. > **[Japan court orders controversial 'Moonies' church to disband](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge1lr7225yo)** > > The Unification Church came under scrutiny after the killing of former PM Shinzo Abe in 2022. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/court-in-japan-orders-moonies-to-disband-strips-the-church-of-its-tax-exempt-status/1016090/2 "2025-03-25T14:57:43Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > don’t know much about the Moonies… The Unification Church has a lot of political influence in Japan, and not just a little bit in the United States Republican Party: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wFn6gWYMDpo/maxresdefault.jpg "Shinzo Abe was assassinated. Now, Japan hates him.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFn6gWYMDpo) Stranger