President Biden should raise the issue of the state of freedom of religion in Japan when he meets with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during his visit to the U.S. this week, several religious liberty advocates said Tuesday.
Religious freedom activists urge Biden to press Japan’s Kishida at summitJapan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during an interview with foreign media members ahead of an official visit to the United States at the Prime Minister’s official residence Friday, April 5, 2024, in Tokyo. Kishida is making an official visit …
The Kishida government “has relentlessly cracked down on religious minorities” since the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by the disgruntled son of a member of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, a group formerly known as the Unification Church.Alleged ties between the Family Federation and Mr. Kishida’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party sparked a call — chiefly from leaders of Japan’s Communist Party — to dismantle the Family Federation. Mr.
The Rev. Luke Higuchi, a Family Federation minister, told this year’s International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington that he is “worried that Japan is in a crisis of religious freedom.” Former U.S. Rep. Dan Burton, Indiana Republican, took up the cause in an op-ed for Newsmax, writing, “If the government moves to restrict citizens’ right to believe as they wish, what’s to stop it from overruling other basic rights at will?”
Mr. Kishida’s state visit this week “is an important opportunity to confront this issue,” the statement said. “We must remind our dear friends in the Japanese government that the right to freedom of religion is truly a litmus test for all other human rights.”
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