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Interview with Tetsuya Yamagami: The Woman Called "Sensei" in the Unification Church Approached Tetsuya Yamagami's Mother in this Way!
The Woman Called "Sensei" (Part 2)
Gendai Business Editorial Department
Tetsuya Yamagami's mother, who was called the "Hottest person of the Moment"
Gendai Business has learned that the "spiritualist" to whom Tetsuya Yamagami's mother was forced to donate money is a woman in the former Unification Church.
This Minako Higashiyama (pseudonym) belongs to the former Unification Church in Higashi Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, and is positioned as a "teacher" in the organizational chart. In reality, however, she is a central figure who acts as a "spiritualist" and collects huge donations throughout the Kansai region. Continuing from the previous article, let us reveal the reality of Mr. Higashiyama.
(Please also read Part I, "The True Face and M.O. of the Unification Church's Female Spiritualist.)
Ms. A became a devoted believer. She also participated in peddling dried surume (dried squid) with three or four other people in a white van. This activity is called "micro" in the old Unification Church.
Mr. A recalls, "Mr. Higashiyama preached about believers, but I was not a believer.
Mr. A recalls, "At the end of Higashiyama's persuasion of believers, when she asked for donations, I was nearby and joined her. I was also in the role of making them feel they could not refuse the donation by telling them, 'I also donated 5.3 million yen and saved a child in the spirit world,' or 'I closed my time deposit and gave it to heaven".
The final decision to make a donation is called "closing" within the former Unification Church, and the technique is included in the manual.
However, Mr. A gradually began to have doubts about the old Unification Church's frenzied efforts to collect money regardless of the means. He also learned of the existence of a donation manual. One of the former Unification Church members who went bankrupt was the mother of Tetsuya Yamagami, the suspect.
I met that mother several times. The old Unification Church called believers who had money "man of the hour" and tried to get them to give donations by giving them preferential treatment over other believers. So the mother of the suspect, Yamagami's mother, was also treated politely by the executives, who read her as a 'man of the hour. I think Mr. Higashiyama appeared early on and got him to make a large donation," said Ms. A.
At a press conference, the former Unification Church affirmed, "We have been in thorough compliance since 2009, and there has been no trouble since then.
North Korea sows sarin.
Let us look at the case of Ms. B, a woman who, like Ms. A, was forced to make a donation of nearly 10 million yen by Mr. Higashiyama.
With her permission, we quote from her notes
I drew up a family tree and [Mr. Higashiyama] said that you are a family with strong emotional ties.
You must save your ancestors with you as the central figure. If you don't make offerings to your ancestors, misfortune will befall your family and descendants.
When Mr. B was horrified by these words, Mr. Higashiyama folded them up with the following words: "Your ancestors are suffering in the spirit world.
My ancestors are suffering in the spirit world. If you make a donation, you will be released.
If you want to prevent the spread of evil, you must make a donation.
Mr. Higashiyama also called other believers and surrounded Ms. B with the same tactics she used with Ms. A, creating a situation where she could not refuse his offer and getting her to promise to make a donation. At this time, Mr. B was forced to offer 2.5 million yen in cash.
Careful reading of the list of Mr. B's victims' money reveals that in 2012, Mr. B was asked to pay 520,000 yen for; North Korea is preparing to release sarin gas, and we need your donation to stop them.
In 2013, Ms. B was invited to a ceremony to drink the "holy wine formula," which was said to contain the bodily fluids of the former founder of the Unification Church, Moon Myung Moon.
If you don't drink the holy wine, you can't enter heaven, she said.
If you drink the holy wine, it will remove the sins you were born with.
When asked to make a donation, Mr. B put 400,000 yen in a white envelope and wrote "Thanksgiving Offering" on it.
Over the five years from 2011 to 2016, the former Unification Church withdrew a total of more than 9.36 million yen in donations from Mr. B.
Reporters went to Mr. Higashiyama's home.
The former Unification Church in Higashiosaka City wrote in a written response, "Mr. B. is a devoted believer. We cannot confirm that she was "awed, bewildered, or compelled to make a donation" or that she was "defrauded or intimidated.
However, as soon as Attorney Kano pointed out, based on past precedents, that "a full recovery of damages is possible if a lawsuit is filed," the former Unification Church acknowledged its obligation to pay the 5.5 million yen in 22 installments, she said. The agreement was signed in December 2016.
Higashiyama, who pressured not only Yamagami's mother but also numerous believers to donate money, has taken the witness stand many times in the past in civil trials for damage caused by psychic sales. Gendai Business also obtained records of his testimony.
In court, while denying that he is a "psychic," Higashiyama said, "Some people call me a family tree teacher," and then testified, "I talked about psychic liberation.
"We talked about spiritual liberation. If you ask me if money is really the only way to liberate the spirit world, it is not at all."
"I didn't say anything specific about the effects of the donations."
She insisted that it was only a donation made by the believers themselves. However, the court ruling at that time accepted the victim's claim.
Attorney Kano, who has also seen cases in which the former Unification Church acknowledged its wrongdoing in lawsuits and refunded money to former believers, describes the reality of how the "spiritualist" Higashiyama has been deceptively collecting money.
The two and one were the preferred numbers for the former Unification Church, which called them the principle numbers. In the case of Mr. A, the donation was 5.3 million yen, but Mr. Higashiyama had him pay this amount by saying something ludicrous like, "If you add 3 to 5, you get 8, so it's a perfect circle and we'll rescue you from the spirit world.
It is amazing how Mr. Higashiyama used the "spirit world" as a stage set to confuse the victims and make them unable to make normal judgments so that he could get them to pay the money at once. Looking back on it now, it was all lies and outrageous.
Gendai Business visited the home of Ms. Higashiyama, who was said to be a female psychic, to ask her opinion. According to prior interviews, she is now about 80 years old, but we were told by sources that she is still in good health. I pressed the intercom at his home and asked him about the former Unification Church and the "woman psychic. A shrill, angry voice rang out over the intercom.
"Are you still doing lax things? Do you really think there is such a thing? We are in trouble too!"
The intercom was unilaterally turned off.
At a press conference on August 10, the former Unification Church explained, "Our organization has not conducted so-called psychic sales in the past or at present. It insists that donations of this kind were made of their own free will. However, he has been convicted in criminal cases and has lost numerous civil lawsuits. In view of the series of testimonies, this excuse may not hold water.
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