All of this reminds me of how cults came to dominate Japanese religious life in the postwar years & became intimately bound up with the Japanese Diet. Even the Moonies, which started in the Republic of Korea, notoriously did way more "business" in Japan than the ROK

https://xcancel.com/The_Wub_/status/1860833378280284489

real sense in which this admin is getting the WACL team back together