Most effective political assassination of the 21st century, hands down no contest.
Moral of the story - If you're going to do evil cult shit don't scam people's moms.
I think this speaks to the situation in Japan being tentative for the right, while also having a party of effective monsters willing to do whatever is necessary to keep power. They're like the tories in that regard, but even better at it.
Possibly even the most effective assassination of all time
It's not even the most effective assassination in Japanese history, let alone world history
Still incredibly impressive
I want a bunch of morning show "concerning religious crackdowns in japan" segments out of this, like we used to get for falun gong in china.
It would be funny, but cutting off the Moonies from a major market is probably more productive (even if Japan would only do it for racist reasons, the damage to a reactionary SK institution is good).
I can only imagine the results he would have gotten if he had gotten to use that 9-barreled shotgun he had built
This may be the most effective political assassination of all time. I guess he set his goals fairly low in fairness.
In regards to the "most successful assassination" stuff, IDK this seems like nothing to me. Really what they mean by "dissolving" the moonies is taking away their tax exempt status and they can only do that for Japan. It's a South Korean church with a large American contingent so losing tax exempt status in Japan won't mean much in the grand scheme of things. I mean, the other two organizations mentioned in the article as being "dissolved" by the Japanese government are still around (albeit under new aliases and/or government surveillance from what I can see.) Seems like it's more about covering up an embarrassing political fiasco than actually addressing the problem.
This sounds like Japanese politics in general. They shuffle some papers around after an embarrassing scandal, maybe change some minor beuracratic thing, and the whole purpose is to get everything out of the news immediately. It's pure distilled "we hear you, you're valid, anyway. Go back to work"
