UN Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse in Japan - The law stipulates four types of abuse: physical, sexual, neglect and psychological.

The law stipulates four types of abuse: physical, sexual, neglect and psychological.
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TOKYO - New health ministry guidelines in Japan will classify as abuse any acts by members of religious groups who threaten or force their children to participate in religious activities, or that hinder a child’s career path based on religious doctrine.

According to unnamed sources cited by Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun, the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry is preparing its first draft of guidelines to help local governments deal with issues of child abuse that have emerged in connection with religious groups such as the Unification Church, officially known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.

The controversial Unification Church came to attention in 2022 after former prime minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot by a man with longstanding grudges against the religious group.

Children of religious groups’ followers have criticised the authorities’ handling of this issue in the past.

They have said child consultation centres and the police did not respond to their complaints of abuse, telling the children there was nothing they could do because freedom of religion is protected under the Constitution.

In October, the ministry told local governments not to make perfunctory responses simply because a problem is religious in nature. It is also working to outline specific points in the guidelines that the authorities should be aware of when dealing with such cases.

According to the sources, the envisaged guidelines will be in a question-and-answer format and will specify what faith-based acts against children fall under the categories of abuse as stipulated in the Child Abuse Prevention Law.

The law stipulates four types of abuse: physical, sexual, neglect and psychological.

Inciting fear by telling children they will go to hell if they do not participate in religious activities, or preventing them from making decisions about their career path, is regarded as psychological abuse and neglect in the guidelines.

Other acts that will constitute neglect include not having the financial resources to provide adequate food or housing for children as a result of making large donations, or blocking their interaction with friends due to a difference in religious beliefs and thereby undermining their social skills.

When taking action, the guidelines will urge child consultation centres and local governments to pay particular attention to the possibility that children may be unable to recognise the damage caused by abuse after being influenced by doctrine-based thinking and values.

In addition, there are concerns that giving advice to parents may cause the abuse to escalate and bring increased pressure from religious groups on the families. In the light of this, the guidelines will call for making the safety of children the top priority and taking them into temporary protective care without hesitation.

For children 18 years of age or older and not eligible for protection by child consultation centres, local governments should instead refer them to legal support centres, welfare offices and other consultation facilities.

Guidelines already exist for child consultation centres on how to respond to abuse, but this will be the first time that they are devised specifically for children of religious followers.

The ministry has been developing these guidelines based on interviews conducted with some of the children in question. THE JAPAN NEWS/ASIA NEWS NETWORK

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[Exterminatus]

Why did South Korea convert to Christianity more?

For the Koreans I believe it was sort of a cultural and nationalistic thing that opened them up to Christianity, when the Japs occupied them, it was seen as a force of resistance against their colonizers and got tied to their national identity.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

For the Koreans I believe it was sort of a cultural and nationalistic thing that opened them up to Christianity, when the Japs occupied them, it was seen as a force of resistance against their colonizers and got tied to their national identity.

That and post-war American missionary work.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Why did South Korea convert to Christianity more?

American Christian Missionaries during the late 19th century and 20th did really well in Korea and China. If not for the British, Christianity might’ve recovered in China after the Taiping Rebellion. American missionaries back then pushed a lot of social reform and genuinely helped with modernizing farming. They also tended to be the types to push temperance and ending widow burning and foot binding.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

American Christian Missionaries did really well in Korea and China. If not for the British, Christianity might’ve recovered in China after the Taiping Rebellion. American missionaries back then pushed a lot of social reform and genuinely helped with modernizing farming. They also tended to be the types to push temperance and ending widow burning and foot binding.

It's ironic just how much of the backwards propaganda surrounding the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages through the Renaissance (Spread by Protestants and Atheists mind you), was absolutely FALSE.

 

[Trimalchio]

Can we trace the exact origins of Hinduism? Because I have heard about it having Zoroastrian, and therefore, Babylonian, roots.

There is a real but very ancient connection between the Indo-Iranian pantheons. They share a common ancestral religion and language, but later diverged significantly. Zoroastrianism monotheism marked a clear break from the polytheism that endures in Hindu traditions.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

There is a real but very ancient connection between the Indo-Iranian pantheons. They share a common ancestral religion and language, but later diverged significantly. Zoroastrianism monotheism marked a clear break from the polytheism that endures in Hindu traditions.

Why did the Hindufags become polythiest? And what are the biggest differences between Zoroastrianism and Christianity?

 

[Gog & Magog]

Religion is like brussel sprouts and anal sex: if forced upon you as a child,you're guaranteed to hate as an adult.

What the fuck do you have against brussel sprouts?

 

[Lovely Kin]

Aren't they more Buddhist over there anyways?

Somewhat I suppose, they struck me as more quietly nonreligious.

Why did South Korea convert to Christianity more?

Missionaries from the 1900s, it was at one point Pyongyang was a hotbed for missionaries called the Jerusalem of the East. However, during the Korean War, and afterwards, many American evangelicals, some soldiers, some pastors, went over there and preached a lot to them. And for some South Koreans, it would be seen as an anti-communist thing since the North cracked down on religion, resulting in many North Koreans to move down during and before the Korean War.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

Somewhat I suppose, they struck me as more quietly nonreligious.

Missionaries from the 1900s, it was at one point Pyongyang was a hotbed for missionaries called the Jerusalem of the East. However, during the Korean War, and afterwards, many American evangelicals, some soldiers, some pastors, went over there and preached a lot to them. And for some South Koreans, it would be seen as an anti-communist thing since the North cracked down on religion, resulting in many North Koreans to move down during and before the Korean War.

I heard there's still a lot of underground Christians in the North.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

It's ironic just how much of the backwards propaganda surrounding the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages through the Renaissance (Spread by Protestants and Atheists mind you), was absolutely FALSE.

The Eternal City has its issues. The black legends mostly originate due to Protestant branches having a bit of nationalism in them and the monarchs of countries drawing legitimacy from the Church. But the Canterbury tales and Luther did have a point with it becoming more of a place of political power pursued by power hungry men, the fate of any institution with power.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Pretty sure like 50% of the lolcows on the site (and a good chunk of the userbase) never forgave their parents who made them go to church/mosque/synagogue on the weekend.

Doesn't help that the cults that legit abuse kids won't care anyways.

 

[No-Eyed Square Guy]

I think this is the least real article I've ever tried to read. Tell a chatbot to blabber about some already intentionally vague Japanese bureaucratic shit, get hyperslop.

The church these bureaucratic maneuvers were aimed at, the weird Korean Christians we call moonies, has since been outlawed in Japan. The JP equivalent of our shitlib "deep state" was looking for excuses to do it because it was the church associated with right-populist politics (Abe and Trump). They floated this child abuse angle for a while and abandoned it because nobody bought it. Eventually they decided to just judicially strip the church's religious status and declare it a financial scam (which of course it is, being Christian).

 

[sheepworldvizor]

Where do they stand on transing kids?

 

[Gorton Colu]

Forced participation in government is a form of abuse.

 

[Trimalchio]

Why did the Hindufags become polythiest? And what are the biggest differences between Zoroastrianism and Christianity?

Those are both big questions, lol. I think it would be more accurate to say that the Hindus maintained and developed the polytheism they inherited above all from the Vedas. Over the centuries there have been many philosophical interpretations of Vedic teachings within Hinduism, some of which actually veer towards a kind of monotheism.

Not easy to summarize all the differences between Zoroastrianism and Christianity. Probably above my pay grade, honestly, lol. On a "big picture" philosophical level, I think there remains a tension in Zoroastrianism between monotheism and dualism, i.e. the opposition between Ahura Mazda as the supreme god and the radically evil being of Ahriman, a problem that mainstream Christianity has mostly dispensed with.

 

[VisaMallgoth]

I'm not surprised. The conservatives hate any western influenced religious group (for obvious reasons), and the liberals hate any religion that isn't the state cult.

Why did South Korea convert to Christianity more?

There's more of an American military influence there compared to, say, Japan. These cults are usually created by American military intelligence so they could have a sure way to fight against North Korea and China when push comes to shove. It's a good way to bind people in top military or political positions you're trying to control; it also helps when you could use it for black market purposes too (drug/human trafficking) usually with the help of Freemasonic adjacent groups like the yakuza and triads. Other cults, like Aum Shinrikyo, were probably Russian or Chinese created, while the Moonies are clearly an American one.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Religion is like brussel sprouts and anal sex: if forced upon you as a child,you're guaranteed to hate as an adult.

…I thought getting buggered how was Little Jimmy grows up to be Big Gay Al?

Japan is a Satanic society that just happens to be good at imitating - like a skinwalker - whatever society is recognizes as effective. If the West crumbled and Muslims rose, they’d become a Sharia Law state.

MacArthur tried to voluntarily Christianize them and, unlike Koreans and Vietnamese and Taiwanese, they were completely unreceptive.

Why did South Korea convert to Christianity more?

I don’t really, in a deep way, know, but I’ve read about it before. Korea basically had Confucianism but no rich actual (instead of civil) religious tradition of its own, did not have the vibrant Buddhism of China and Japan. State felt threatened by monasteries. During Japanese colonization some of the nationalists picked up American Evangelicalism (most Korean Christianity is Protestant) from the same missionaries that went all over Asia. Over time the positive relationship with America (saved in WW2, saved from Norks). While Prosperity Gospel in the West is a phantom of the Catholic mind, in Korea it was very powerful due to their massive economic growth as an Asian Tiger.

I recall something to the effect that the religion was circulated very quickly, like in Ancient Rome, by women who early translated the Bible into Hangul and took the lead in proselytizing through women’s social networks. Being embraced by and led by locals instead of being a conspicuously foreign religion matters.

What about HINDUISM SAAR?

Dont triple post you fucking heathen. I have a habit of double posting and the mods will shit down my neck about it one day, but I’ve never made a TRIPLE post.

 

[mold]

Can we trace the exact origins of Hinduism? Because I have heard about it having Zoroastrian, and therefore, Babylonian, roots.

"Hinduism" doesn't refer to the same kind of thing as the -isms attached to the Abrahamic religions. It's a term applied by Western academics to all the religious practices of the subcontinent that aren't yelling NOT IT. So if you're doing something religious, and you're not a Sikh or a Muslim or a Jain or a Buddhist or a Christian or a Parsi or a Jew, you're a Hindu, whether you're worshipping rats, dressing up little girls like goddesses, wandering around naked with some stripes painted on your forehead, or writing Gitanjali, you're all Hindus.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

"Hinduism" doesn't refer to the same kind of thing as the -isms attached to the Abrahamic religions. It's a term applied by Western academics to all the religious practices of the subcontinent that aren't yelling NOT IT. So if you're doing something religious, and you're not a Sikh or a Muslim or a Jain or a Buddhist or a Christian or a Parsi or a Jew, you're a Hindu, whether you're worshipping rats, dressing up little girls like goddesses, wandering around naked with some stripes painted on your forehead, or writing Gitanjali, you're all Hindus.

I heard a professor once describe it as being more accurately thought of as “Hinduisms.”

It’s basically just paganism that gets some special snowflake name for itself as the reward for somehow surviving.

 

[Rick The Stick]

and anal sex: if forced upon you as a child,you're guaranteed to hate as an adult.

Tell that to all the faggots