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綁架統一教案II-2 Kidnaping II-2 統一教 拉致監禁II-2 통일교 일본 납치 II-2

Mr Ahn:

Hello everyone! As my pronunciation is not so good, and you might not be able to understand me, I will use a translator today.

Right now we are at war! What kind of a war is that? This is a war against abduction and confinement. The biggest Satans have taken the sons and daughters of Heaven. So, this is a war and we must win this war. For the past 40 years or more, Satan has been taking the sons and daughters of Heaven and has been confining them. We must find and bring back those brothers and sisters that were taken like this. These victims must be compensated and we must recover all the money that was taken during this course.

Right now, the International President and the Chairman of our Foundation have been using a number of strategies and tactics in order to accomplish this victory. One of these strategies and tactics is the work with the media. Centering on the Japanese Wives’ Association here in Korea, there was a demonstration in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. And when that happened, the Associated Press, Reuters, NBC, the Korean television station many others were there to cover it, and they began to understand the truth about our organization.

Mrs Erikawa and Mrs Tanaka representing the victims, cried out in front of the embassy, “What have we done wrong? We love Korea; we love Japan; that’s all that we have done wrong! The only thing we have done wrong is to attend the Rev. Sun Myung Moon as the Lord of the Second Advent, the Savior and the Messiah. And yet these Christian ministers in Japan and Communist lawyers have taken Unification Church members, have confined them and beat them. Some members have even committed suicide, some sisters have been raped”. The Japanese wives cried out to the Japanese ambassador in their demonstration in front of the embassy.

What really makes the Japanese wives angry is that the Japanese government is ignoring the fact that this is going on and is doing nothing about it. Japan is a rich country and is a major power in the world. And yet this democratic country is ignoring this kind of abduction and confinement. They strongly protested this fact.

As you see, these are photographs taken by AP and Reuters. They went there that day; they covered this, wrote these articles and took these photographs. These are the Chosun Ilbo, the Joong Ang Daily and the Kyunghyang Shinmun, some major Korean newspapers. They covered the story and wrote about the Japanese wives that cried out in front of the Japanese embassy.

And here are business newspapers and the Segye Ilbo. The chairman of the Foundation especially asked the Segye Times to have a series of articles on this matter. They have written four articles so far, and they will continue to write about it. Until this is resolved, the Segye Ilbo plans to write one article a week so that the whole world, and all the people of Korea can understand the situation that is going on.

Some people are concerned that the Unification Church of Japan has been accused of spiritual sales. But the chairman of the Foundation has said very strongly: “Even if that were true, it is not comparable to what has been going on! How can that being compared with sisters being raped and people committing suicide in confinement?” This project is not something that any individual is doing. This is something that God is doing and that True Parents are leading directly, and our good ancestors are aggressively and actively cooperating in this effort.

So the chairman said: “Don’t worry, go ahead and do this!” So Mr Kim Jong Kwan in the Church headquarters, Mr Lee in Cheon Bok Gung, Mr Cho Sun Il in the world mission department, and myself, got together and figured out how to do this.

Then the Korean media began to take our side in this matter. The most famous wire service in Korea is the Yeon Hab Il; they have often covered this and sent this material out to all the news organizations in Korea.

Mrs Erikawa is on your right, she is crying out, holding a photograph in her hand. There are 7,000 Japanese wives who have married Korean men and who are now living in Korea. 300 of them, when they were in Japan, were victims of abduction and confinement. Many of them are still not able to go back to Japan, even 10-15 years after they’ve come to Korea. They have never been able to go back to their home, not that they don’t want to go, but because there are still people that are working in this abduction and confinement and the Japanese government is letting this continue.

So she held that photograph and cried out to the reporters who were there. This is not any old picture; this is a Japanese woman who married a Korean man, came to Korea and lived with that Korean husband, but when she went back to Japan to visit her home, she was abducted and confined. She suffered so much during that confinement, she was not able to endure the humiliation that she received, and she took her own life in confinement. But that is not a suicide! When a person dies like that in confinement, this is murder committed by the abducters.

This is how Mrs Erikawa cried out to the reporters, “In the 21st century, how can this kind of things be going on? We cannot allow this to continue. We cannot forgive those who are doing this. We will resolve this situation and bring back everything that was taken!” This is what Mrs Erikawa said.

Mrs Tanaka was standing next to her. She is the president of the Victims’ Association in Korea. Now for 15 years she’s been living here in Korea, her children are growing up, they want to go and see their grandparents but she said, “We cannot go. We have done nothing wrong! Our sin is to love Japan and to love Korea, to love these two countries together.” That is what she’s cried out.

This content was covered by the journalists there and was sent out across the world. The online site www.Kyunghyang.com put up a five-minute video. This is a weekly paper operated by a religious organization in Korea and because this is a Christian issue, they handled it.

This is not just a simple issue of abduction and confinement, so we cannot forgive Satan. God’s authority and the authority of True Parents must be re-established in Japan. That is the mission to which we are being called. The international president and the Foundation chairman have called us to this mission, and they are leading us in the forefront.

These photographs that you see here, are of the Japanese wives demonstrating in front of the Japanese embassy, wearing kimonos. The reporters are covering this demonstration. We are not going to stop here, we are on the first stage, second stage, third stage and we will continue. This is just the beginning. So, even if we all have to demonstrate in front of the embassy, and even if we all have to shave our heads and protest we will completely be victorious in this issue.

Same with the Japanese wives; on the right are the reporters and the demonstrators on the left. The media had such a great interest in this that there are actually more reporters than demonstrators. Now they are listening to what we want to say. Mrs Erikawa and Mrs Tanaka are carrying the petitions and the signatures to support the petitions and they are delivering this to the Japanese embassy. The police blocked the entrance to the embassy so that the journalists cannot get too close. But we were able to deliver the petitions as you see. Here this is Mrs Erikawa and Mrs Tanaka delivering the petitions to the Japanese embassy and the reporters are covering that event. The police, the embassy employees and the Japanese correspondents were also there covering this. After this, Mrs Erikawa was interviewed on the spot by AP and Reuters.

Second, last Wednesday, on April 21st, we all had our news conference in the Press Center. 250 Japanese wives were gathered there for the news conference. They wore their sashes and their kimonos and with a prayerful heart they attended the news conference. There, Mrs Erikawa said that in over 40 years, 4300 of our members have been abducted and confined. “This cannot happen!” she cried out to the reporters.

And Mr Goto Toru who was confined for 12 years and 5 months, spoke to the reporters about his experience, about his suffering during that time, and how he was confined. This is the apartment building where he was confined. The family had another home, but they rented this apartment specifically for the purpose of keeping him confined, on the top floor in this apartment building, and they kept him there. He was beaten, and he was not fed properly. He called out to the police while he was being taken there, but they didn’t help him. Finally he realized that the only way he could resist, the only way he could protest was by going on a fast.

This is not just his individual issue. This is a pain that we all share together with him, and this is our common sorrow. He would have liked to jump out of the window, but it was so high that he could not do that. He could not go out of the front door either as you see. This is how the front door was locked, double and triple locked. Everything was arranged in that apartment so that he could not escape.

This is not just one person that had this experience. 4300 people have experienced this pain and this suffering. Some don’t feel that they can return to the church, and some have gone to the spiritual world already. We need to resolve this situation.

This is the lock that was on the window. This apartment was arranged with all these locks so that he could not escape. Sometimes some young people would come, some Christian ministers would come to tourment him and to beat him. What Mr Goto is truly angry about is that these ministers and these leftist lawyers fooled his parents into going along into this kind of things. They defamed our church to his parents. He’s also angry with the Japanese government with allowing these kinds of things to go on.

Now, the Foundation chairman is working in Japan to resolve this situation, and is leading this effort directly.

This is another view of the news conference last Wednesday. This person was also victim of abduction and confinement when she was in Japan, and she’s reading out a statement of her experience. There are not just one or two like this. More than 300 Japanese wives, now living in Korea, had this experience when they were in Japan. We must make sure that all these 300 people are able to visit their homes. We need your prayers and we need your cheong seong.

Mr Goto came to Korea last week and he was interviewed by weekly papers and publications. “Breaking News” filmed this interview. They made a ten-minute video and placed it online.

And also the Japanese wives have put together a petition to President Myung Bok Lee of Korea and to the prime minister of Korea. They also sent it to the parliamentarians and to the members of the National Assembly in Korea. The Foundation chairman has told us to come up with a variety of strategies for this effort. One member of the Korean National Assembly this week is planning to meet the Japanese ambassador, and when he does, he’s going to file a formal complaint about this situation on our behalf.

This is part of the material that was sent to the president of Korea. And these are petitions that are being sent to others officials in Korea, to various VIPs.  Now you’ve seen the wire services and how they are quoted in the newspapers, but the three major broadcasting companies in Korea, MBC, KBS and SBS, also covered it, and we are going to look at those reports.

Please pray and offer your cheong seong for the success of this project.

And now we will watch together a video about the demonstration in front of the embassy.

This is the Japanese embassy in Seoul, and the Japanese wives are gathered here preparing for their demonstration.  57:45  Mr Goto and Japanese wives singing holy songs.

     這是位在首爾的日本大使館，日本太太正在集合準備進行示威。57:45。後藤先生與日本太太一起唱聖歌。

“We are not just Japanese women but we were victims of abduction and confinement by people whose purpose it is to force us to give up our faith. Out 7000 Japanese wives, more than 300 were abducted and confined; we are gathered here today to represent those victims. We are very much aware that the Japanese ambassador is working very hard every day. We are Japanese women married to Koreans, and the reason why we’re here today representing these victims is that these things occurring to us interfere with our lives.

Such criminal activities abducting and confining members of the Unification Church in Japan, and forcing them to change their faith have been occurring for more than forty years. This includes Japanese members living in Korea with their Korean husbands. They became victims when they visited Japan. Until now we endured this silently, thinking it was just our own personal issue. Now though, many of our children have grown to an age when they can understand what is going on in society. So we can no longer remain silent. We now make public the reality of the unjust persecution that we are receiving in Japan. Because of our faith and the ongoing suffering that continues to this day, as we request protection and action to preserve our human rights; and we ask the Ambassador for your sincere understanding and support regarding this matter. Shikako Tanaka representative of Association of the victims of abduction and confinement and forced conversion and 323 others.

In May 1999 my uncle who was a member of the Communist party of Japan, and who opposed the Unification Church contacted my parents in Shinagawa Tokyo. At that time I had to discuss with my parents the teachings of the Unification Church. During my first abduction I was abducted and confined in room 307 of the Business Hotel in Yamanashi Hyon (state). When we arrived at the Yoshida Hotel, my father’s second youngest sister, Sumiko, and her husband, Sagara Hiromu were waiting for us. My father took my right arm, my aunt took my left arm, and they dragged me into the room. My parents took turns contacting a Christian minister several times during the day, and they conveyed to each other the instructions they received from that minister. For 4 days and more than10 hours a day Reverend Kyoko Kawasaki demanded that I give up my faith in the Unification Church.

There was a bathroom in this hotel room, but it had no windows. There are about 300 victims of abduction and confinement. Fifty of them have come here today as representatives. In Japan we joined the Unification Church, and believe the Reverend Sun Myung Moon to be the Second Coming of the Lord, the Savior and Messiah. We also believe that Korea is the Third Israel, and the Father Nation that will bring salvation to the world.

This is why we came to Korea according to God’s will. We have collected signatures from around the country to support these victims. We have here 11,057 signatures. You can see the signatures here. So why did we come here in front of the Japanese embassy? It is because if any of us victims try to go to Japan to visit our home and our nephews, there is a possibility that we could be abducted and confined. These people cannot go to Japan.

Here Mrs. Erikawa and Mrs. Tanaka are entering the Japanese embassy. We had been planning for many more women to come here and demonstrate, but because this was in front of an embassy, 50 was the maximum number that the police would allow. So after prior discussion with the police, it was agreed that the police would allow 50 to make this demonstration.

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