原因としては、新宗教運動に共感する学者の不在と冷戦後の政治状況などが挙げられる。
Shunsuke Uotani
日本における統一教会反対運動２． 左翼勢力
統一運動の一角をなす国際勝共連合は、社会主義者と共産主義者を大いに動揺させ、反発を招いた。
日本における統一教会反対運動1． キリスト教の牧師と反対父母の会
統一教会を異端とみなす牧師と、自分の子供が洗脳されたとみなす親たちが初期の反対運動を形成した。
The Anti-Unification Church Movement in Japan. 3. Why the Dissolution Order Now
Causes include the lack of scholars sympathetic to new religious movements and the post-Cold War political situation.
The Anti-Unification Church Movement in Japan. 2. Left-Wing Forces
The Unification movement’s International Federation for Victory over Communism greatly upset the Socialists and Communists. They reacted.
The Anti-Unification Church Movement in Japan. 1. Christian Pastors and Opposing Parents
Clergy who viewed Unificationists as heretics and parents who thought their children had been brainwashed formed the initial opposition.
Shunsuke Uotani
Shunsuke Uotani is the secretary general of the Universal Peace Federation-Japan. He studied chemical engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and theology at the Unification Theological Seminary. He has held key positions since the founding of IIFWP, the predecessor of UPF. He has published and lectured widely on brainwashing, mind control, and deprogramming, and has written books such as “Mind Control as Pseudoscience” (2023) and “Rebuttal to Yoshihide Sakurai and Hiroko Nakanishi’s book ‘The Unification Church’” (2024).