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Unification Church Case in Japan: Anti-Cultist Eight Suzuki Saved by Technicalities

Summary by Bitter Winter
The court was aware he had no evidence when he claimed that Shinzo Abe was clandestinely paid 50 million yen for a video. Yet, it managed to declare him not guilty of defamation. by Massimo Introvigne Eight Suzuki. From X. Award-winning Japanese journalist Masumi Fukuda reported in 2023 an authoritative opinion that in Japan “in civil lawsuits, there is a kind of unwritten rule, that ‘If you are a cult, you lose,’” and “claims that would not be …
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Bitter Winter broke the news in on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
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