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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Another Japanese anti-SGI blog shut down

This Japanese blogger [now closed down] reported on such incidents as: An SGI leader arrested for reckless driving who killed three children after leaving a meeting; a top leader who made millions selling bogus shark cartilage to desperate cancer patients; several violent SGI member felony trial incidents; SGI member extortion; and an SGI member's murder trial: 


http://error.fc2.com/blogf/l/  -- The Truth About The SGI [in Japanese] 

Hitch comments [before blog site was closed]:


Interesting website. Looks to be like a Japanese version of your website (in this case: chronicling lots of anti-gakkai "news" stories - members' exploits / Seikyo Shimbun horror stories - people who don't subscribe, threats, retribution, etc. / yakuza-esque - a la horse's head scene from "The Godfather" movie, involving a cat - harassment of anti-komeito political candidates / and some creative parodies making fun of the gakkai using the Harry Potter theme and some well-known Japanese cartoon kid's characters - "Crayon Shin-chan", etc.). There was also an interesting archived article about how ~ 89% of the Japanese public dislike the gakkai (to varying degrees). Sounds about right to me, too. 

These kinds of stories are pretty much common place "off the record" in Japan. The cult in Japan is protected by a huge language barrier wall that prevents the International cult members from hearing about these things. Gakkai members in Japan are also told to not believe things they read on the internet that are anti-gakkai. They are kind of paranoid about the membership reading such things (and possibly thinking for themselves). I also suspect that they plant their own bizarre stories in an effort to poison the well and portray all such people who spread such information as being "crazy." 

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