Tuesday, January 25, 2011

A Korean Man Got Down to his Knees to Ask Relatives to Allow him to See his Fiancee.

An investigative reporter, Mr Yonemoto reported another case of abduction/confinement case in his blog today.
http://yonemoto.blog63.fc2.com/blog-entry-242.html

I strongly believe that spreading such information would be the important step to resolve the issue.   Thanks to Mr Yonemoto's report, here are the details of the abduction and confinement. 

This article here is based on Mr Yonemoto's report.

Victim's Details:
Name: Ms. TT(36)
Place: Tokyo
Date of Confinement: Around 2010-12-12  and still under confinement
Deprogrammer: Not known

Ms TT attended the Unification Church wedding ceremony in 2009 and was matched with Korean man, Mr. J.H. LEE.  Mr. Lee is a bus driver in kwangju, South Korea.  Ms TT and Mr Lee have corresponded each other by emails and letters, and developed relationships and decided to marry.

Ms TT moved to Korea in Oct 2010 to learn Korean traditions before starting married life.  They planned to start the married life on Feb 27, 2011.  Mr. Lee also purchased an apartment to be ready for it.

Ms TT returned to Japan to renew the visa on Dec 10, 2010, and visited parents on Dec 12.  And then she had a plan to visit her uncle and aunt in Shizuoka (1 hour form Tokyo by bullet train towards west).  She was supposed to meet her church friends in Tokyo on Dec 15.  But Ms TT did not show up.  The church friends worried and visited the parent's home to find no one there.  It was suspected Ms TT was abducted.

Mr Lee flew to Japan, and visited parents home, but no one there.  He visited Shizuoka where her relatives live.  Their response was cold, just saying "We don't know. We don't know."  Even he got down to his knees to ask their support at their door step, asking them "he wants to see her".

Mr. Lee visited Korean Embassy in Japan and also the police office near her parents home to ask their support.  Police initially did not respond by saying it's "family matters", but later accepted the request to search for a missing person.  Mr Lee returned to Korea in vain with tears on Dec 29, 2011.

Source URL:
http://yonemoto.blog63.fc2.com/blog-entry-242.html

xxx

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Another Kidnapping on New Year's Day, but Victim Escaped.

Another kidnapping/confinement attempt occurred on the New Years Day in Tokyo.

Victim's Details:
Name: Ms. MA (32)
Place: Tokyo
Date of Confinement: 2011-01-01
Date of Escape: 2011-01-03
Deprogrammer: Mr. Takashi MIYAMURA

How the Confinement Occurred:
Ms MA visited her parents home on Jan 1. (New Year Season in Japan is traditionally the family's reunion time to visit parents and to meet each other.) Not only her relatives, but her teachers from her kinder and junior high school were there.

Father: Let's go to another place, so we can discuss without any interruption.
Daughter: Where are we going?
Father: Don't worry.  It's the place where you know.

She got in the car under unavoidable situation.  Her mobile phone was confiscated. Then she arrived at a 3rd floor apartment around 2am on Jan 2.  

Deprogrammer's Appearance:
2pm on the same day (Jan 2)*, a deprogrammer Takashi MIYAMURA came in the apartment with his 3 assistants who were former Unification Church members and denounced the church after experiencing the deprogramming process. Ms MA did not know 2 of them, but one of them was her former "Mother" figure in the church, who used to be MA's trainer and the "able" figure in the church terminology.

(* The following paragraph added later)
It was found that 2pm appearance was their 2nd one.  Their 1st appeaarance was around 2am or 3am on Jan 2, 2011, just after Ms MA arrived at the apartment. (Source of information: http://yonemoto.blog63.fc2.com/blog-entry-238.html ) 

How she Escaped:
Around 2am on Jan 3, she sneaked out to the veranda and managed to reach the electric pole by risking her life, which was still more than a meter away, and descended to the ground.  Then she grabbed a taxi, and returned to the church at 4am.

Photo by Mr. Kazuhiko HARADA
http://miyamurakenkyu.seesaa.net/article/179422819.html


The apartment where she was taken.
It seems she was taken to the far left room on the 3rd floor behind the electric pole.




Photo by Mr. Kazuhiko HARADA
http://miyamurakenkyu.seesaa.net/article/179422819.html






The pole she managed to reach from the veranda (the pole in the middle). A lady who visited the scene described that she couldn't believe what Ms MA did as the distance between the pole and the veranda was around 1 meter. Mr. Harada, the owner of website publishing the photos says the scene made him extremely scary.





Ms MA managed to escape without any accident/injury.  But in the past, there were some victims who tried to escape from the confinement apartment.  The higher floor apartment is systematically rented for the deprogramming purpose.  One victim (man) tried to escape from 5th floor and fell to the ground and had brain damage and paralyzed.

The deprogrammer who appeared at the apartment is Mr. Takashi MIYUMURA, the professional deprogrammer doing almost 40 years. He is not an originator of the deprogramming in Japan, but he was one of the early days of deprogramming in Japan.  His violent methods could be compared to Ted Patrick, American Father of Deprogramming. This MIYAMURA was also a deprogrammer of Mr. Goto who survived 12 years and 5 months ordeal.

It is reported that the church senior members are working to restore the relationships between Ms MA and her parents.

This article was based on the following sources:
http://yonemoto.blog63.fc2.com/blog-entry-238.html by Mr. Yonemoto
http://miyamurakenkyu.seesaa.net/article/179422819.html by Mr. Harada
http://www.rachiinfo.com/  Organization to Stop Religious Kidnapping

xxx

Saturday, January 1, 2011

http://humanrightslink.seesaa.net/

I apologize for long silence.

I've been busy with my Japanese Blog which I introduce English articles in Japanese for Japaese activists and readers.

Please vist my Japesae Blog as well. The blog is Japanease translation based on the original English articles. And the English original articles are shown in the blog together with Japanese translation.

I will re-start writing this Blog soon.  Until then I see you in my another Blog.

http://humanrightslink.seesaa.net/