The total cost may amount to 400 million yen…Inside the “mysterious huge music studio” owned by the former Unification Church in Chiba Prefecture, Japan

When asked by the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification about the purpose of the studio and its involvement with the Unification Church, the Public Relations Office responded as follows.

The building of the MCJ studio is owned by our organization, but the operating entity, MCJ, Inc. is not owned by our organization.”

We also contacted MCJ, which operates the studio, but did not hear from them by the deadline.

The representative of MCJ is said to have served as an executive of the former Unification Church. Therefore, in the past, religious media reported that the studio was an affiliate of the former Unification Church,” said a reporter from the society department of a national newspaper.

Journalist Eito Suzuki, who is familiar with the former Unification Church, said, “The studio is a church organization with video messages and so on.

Suzuki Eight, a journalist familiar with the former Unification Church, said, “The studio is probably filming and producing materials related to the church, such as video messages. （When the former Unification Church disposes of its property before the dissolution order (issued in October of this year) is finalized, it may start with facilities such as MCJ Studios, where the name of the church is not mentioned.

If the assets of the church, said to be worth about 100 billion yen, are disposed of and moved to South Korea, relief for victims may be delayed. In order to prevent this from happening, it is necessary to establish laws and monitor the situation.

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From the November 10 and 17, 2023 issue of FRIDAY