The Startling Sermon Given by President Tanaka on the 100th Day After the Incident at the Former Unification Church
Former Unification Church President Tomihiro Tanaka (66) visited a church in the suburbs of Tokyo and delivered a "Sunday service" in which he spoke about his feelings, but did not express any remorse for the large amount of money he had donated to the church.
Today is the 100th day since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe passed away and another day since he was hit by a bullet.
On October 16, Tomihiro Tanaka, 66, president of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (former Unification Church), appeared at a church in the suburbs of Tokyo and began to speak quietly before his congregation.
“On this particular day, he was visiting one of the local churches for Sunday services. I heard that about 50 members of the congregation had rushed to the church because the president was going to give a ‘sermon’ in person. There was no online streaming, and only the congregation that was there was able to listen.” (Church official)
The Sunday service is a place for the congregation to deepen their faith through chants and a sermon that reads the words of the church’s founder, Moon Sung Myung Moon. This magazine obtained audio data from the day of the event. The sermon given by President Tanaka on the 100th anniversary of the shooting of former Prime Minister Abe was astonishing and far removed from the way the world perceives it.
At first, he spoke about the recent media reports, saying, “I receive letters from many of my seniors. Fight them! Why don’t you get on the TV stations?” After eliciting laughter from the congregation, Tanaka’s talk went to the heart of the matter.
On the day [of the incident], I was shocked to hear that former Prime Minister Abe had been hit by a bullet. Then I was shocked to learn that the suspect’s mother belonged to the church, and even more shocked to learn that the real target was her mother (President Han Huruko). The true (Makoto) parents of humankind were set as the target of the bullets. This is such a historical stain on Japan. We must deeply regret it.
Chairman Tanaka then referred to the family of the suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, 42.
Six months before the incident, the suspect sent an e-mail to our church members in Korea. He is a youth director who used to be in Nara. (The suspect) sent the e-mail in the hope that (the church member) was not attending church and that he would have some sympathy for what he was trying to do. However, I learned that (the church member) was still in church. I said, ‘Then that’s it,’ and I haven’t heard from them since then. But the fact that I sent the e-mail means that we had a heart-to-heart communication.
“This (Yamagami) family opens their heart only to that church member. The eldest son committed suicide right after that church member went to Korea. I am convinced that if someone had taken his place and faced the Yamagami family after he went to Korea, this incident would not have happened. With that in mind, although the investigation headquarters has not yet reached a conclusion, I believe that we cannot deny that (the incident) had a great deal to do with our cult’s attitude.”
In other words, Chairman Tanaka is trying to say that the disappearance of someone who understood the Yamagami family led to this incident. However, it is clear to everyone that the mother of the Yamagami suspect made donations of more than 100 million yen to the cult, and that this was the root cause of the family’s collapse.
