SEOUL (Reuters) – Japan cabinet members have to check and review their ties using the Unification Church to alleviate public concerns, the government spokesperson said on Monday, inside a response to tumbling acceptance ratings for Primary Minister Fumio Kishida.
“Regarding the issues related to the particular Unification Church, we should pay enough focus on relationships with institutions that are socially belittled, so people is not going to have concerns, inch Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno stated at a regular news conference.
Longstanding links between the strongly anti-communist cathedral, which critics contact a cult, and Japan’s ruling Generous Democratic Party, came into spotlight, harming the popularity of Kishida’s government, in the wake up of the killing of former Prime Ressortchef (umgangssprachlich) Shinzo Abe’s murder.
(Reporting by Ju-min Park; Editing simply by Kim Coghill)