Editing Shūkyō nisei (section)

==Government responses==
In October 2022, Prime Minister [[Fumio Kishida]] had ordered his ministers to launch a probe against the UC to decide if the government would request the court to issue an order of removing the UC of its [[religious corporation]] status.<ref name="kyodo 1016 kishida probe">{{citation
|url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/10/dcac697578dc-urgent-japan-pm-eyes-launching-probe-into-controversial-unification-church.html
|title=Japan PM eyes launching probe into controversial Unification Church
|work=[[Kyodo News]]
|date=2022-10-16
|accessdate=2022-12-27
}}</ref> One focus of this probe was the allegedly illegal [[child adoption]] arrangement among the UC followers. The UC denied any organized arrangement.<ref>{{Citation
|url=https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUF068QO0W2A201C2000000/
|title=旧統一教会の養子縁組、2018年度以降31件 調査に回答
|trans-title=The Unification Church answered that there have been 31 cases of child adoption arrangements since 2018
|work=[[The Nikkei]]
|date=2022-12-06
|accessdate=2022-12-27
|language=ja
}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Japan to probe Unification Church's adoption system |date=2022-11-18 |work=[[The Japan Times]] |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/11/18/national/unification-church-adoption-probe/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118124240/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/11/18/national/unification-church-adoption-probe/ |archive-date=November 18, 2022 |accessdate=2022-12-28}}</ref> In December 2022, when the [[Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare]] submitted a second inquiry about the child adoption practice, the UC refused to answer more than half of the questions, and sent a letter of protest for the ministry.<ref>{{Citation
|url=https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/883e573c7ad588f2aff079ba2868e0e5f2c59b95
|title=半分以上が「回答拒否」…"統一教会"養子縁組の追加質問 厚労省に抗議文送付
|trans-title=The Unification Church refused to answer more than half of the questions regarding the child adoption arrangement additional inquiry. Letter of protest for the Health Labour Ministry
|work=[[Nippon TV]]
|date=2022-12-20
|accessdate=2022-12-27
|language=ja
|via=Yahoo News
}}</ref>

In December 2022, [[Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare|Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare]] considered drafting new guidelines which would define what kinds of actions constitute religious abuse against children to better help shūkyō nisei. These include intimidating an individual with language such as "[you will] be damned to hell" (地獄に落ちる) and coercing an individual into participating in any religious activity.<ref>{{Citation
|url=https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/252540?display=1
|title=「信仰の強制は虐待」厚労省が宗教2世虐待めぐりガイドライン作成を検討
|trans-title= 'Imposing faith is an act of abuse.' The Health Labour Ministry considers making guidelines regarding the shūkyō nisei issues
|work=[[Tokyo Broadcasting System]]
|date=2022-12-26
|accessdate=2022-12-27
|language=ja
}}</ref><ref>{{Citation
|url=https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/politics-government/20221227-79777/
|title=Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse
|work=[[Yomiuri Shimbun]]
|date=2022-12-27
|accessdate=2022-12-28
}}</ref>