When Sun Myung Moon, the Korean founder of the Unification Church, needed money for its extensive spiritual and business ventures, he would look to Japan, according to some former members.
¡°Senior officials would tell us he needed hundreds of millions of dollars and that Japan had to pay,¡± said Masaki Nakamasa, a Kanazawa University professor who was a member of the church for 11? years until 1992.
Moon, a self-proclaimed Messiah, died in 2012. His church¡¯s doctrine still urges its tens of thousands of Japanese members to make donations to atone for atrocities perpetrated during their country¡¯s 1910-45 occupation of the Korean Peninsula.
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