A | TOKYO -- Japan’s government asked a court Friday to revoke the legal status of the Unification Church after an Education Ministry investigation concluded the group for decades has systematically manipulated its followers into donating money, sowing fear and harming their families.The request submitted to the Tokyo District Court asks for it to issue a dissolution order revoking the church's status as a religious organization. Education Ministry officials submitted 5,000 pieces of documents and evidence in cardboard boxes to the court to support its request. The process involves hearings and appeals from both sides and would take a while. If the order is approved and its legal status is stripped, the church could still operate but would lose its tax exemption privilege as a religious organization and would face financial setbacks.The request was made a day after Education Minister Masahito Moriyama announced a panel of experts had endorsed the revocation request based on the findings of the ministry's investigation into the church's fundraising tactics and other allegations. The Japan branch of the South Korea-based church, which officially calls itself the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, earlier condemned the government's decision.“It is our deepest regret that the Japanese government made the serious decision based on distorted information provided by a leftist lawyers’ group formed for the purpose of destroying our organization,” the church said in a statement late Thursday. “It will be a stain in Japan’s Constitutional history.”As part of the Education Ministry investigation, officials interviewed more than 170 people allegedly harmed by the church's fundraising tactics and other problems. The church failed to respond to dozens of questions during the seven inquiries, Moriyama said Thursday. The church tried to steer its followers’ decision-making, using manipulative tactics, making them buy expensive goods and donate beyond their financial ability and causing fear and harm to them and their families, Moriyama said Thursday. The tactics seriously deviated from the law on religious groups, in which the purpose of the churches’ legal status is to give people peace of mind, he said. “The activities are wrongful conducts under the Civil Code and their damages are immense.”The Agency for Cultural Affairs found 32 cases of civil lawsuits acknowledging damages totaling 2.2 billion yen ($14.7 million) for 169 people, while the amount of settlements reached in or outside court totaled 20.4 billion yen ($137 million) and involved 1,550 people, Moriyama said.Japan has in place hurdles for restraining religious activities due to lessons from the prewar and wartime oppression of freedom of religion and thought.The investigation followed months of public outrage and questions about the group’s fundraising and recruitment tactics after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination last year. The man accused of shooting Abe allegedly was motivated by the former prime minister’s links to the church that he blamed for bankrupting his family.Decades of cozy ties between the church and Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party were revealed since Abe's assassination and have eroded support for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government. Kishida told reporters Thursday that the government’s decision to seek the revocation order was made carefully based on facts and was not political, denying speculation it was intended to shore up dwindling public support.The Unification Church obtained legal status as a religious organization in Japan in 1968 amid an anti-communist movement supported by Abe’s grandfather, former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi.The church has acknowledged excessive donations but says the problem has been mitigated for more than a decade. It also has pledged further reforms.Experts say Japanese followers are asked to pay for sins committed by their ancestors during Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, and that the majority of the church’s worldwide funding comes from Japan.If the church's status is revoked, it would be the first under civil law. Two earlier cases involved criminal charges — the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, which carried out a sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and the Myokakuji group, whose executives were convicted of fraud.。 白天阳光明媚，夜晚月光皎洁。副热带高压加强西伸，天气舞台重归夏日“经典配方”，今天全省大部多云为主，午后有分散性雷阵雨“随机掉落”，浙南和沿海地区部分仍有阵雨或雷雨“打卡”。总体来看，今天算是近期全省雨水比较“收敛”的一天。对杭州来说，随着“简拉维”残余环流进一步减弱西进，气温会比昨天小幅升高。预计我市今天多云，有分散性阵雨或雷雨，偏东风3~4级阵风5级，白天最高气温34℃，早晨最低气温25℃。“沙德尔”进入东海预计27日夜间至28日上午登陆今年的台风“大戏”剧情紧凑。第19号台风“紫檀”昨天18时40分前后以热带风暴级登陆海南昌江沿海，第20号台风“简拉维”和第21号台风“艾莎尼”停编，退出“台风群聊”。目前，“简拉维”残余影响逐渐减弱，“沙德尔”则步步逼近。昨天18时，中央气象台继续发布台风橙色预警：今年第18号台风“沙德尔”（强台风级）的中心25日下午5时位于浙闽交界偏东方向约920公里的西北太平洋洋面上，中心附近最大风力14级（45米/秒），中心最低气压为950百帕，七级风圈半径350~400公里，十级风圈半径120~150公里，十二级风圈半径50~60公里。预计“沙德尔”将以每小时15~20公里的速度向西偏北方向移动，强度变化不大，26日凌晨移入东海东部，之后移速减慢，转向西偏南方向移动，逐渐向浙闽沿海靠近，将于27日夜间至28日上午在浙江象山到福建福清一带沿海登陆（35~42米/秒，12~14级，台风级或强台风级）。浙江省气象台预计，受“沙德尔”影响，今天至27日，东海中南部海域风力逐渐增强到11~13级部分14~16级，台风中心经过的附近海域风力可达17级及以上；东海北部海域风力逐渐增强到11~13级；28日东海西南部海域有11~13级部分14~16级阵风。浙中南沿海海面今天（26日）傍晚起风力逐渐增强到9~10级，27日至28日继续增强到12~13级局部14~16级；浙北沿海海面27日风力逐渐增强到9~13级。
B | 27日至28日沿海和浙南地区有大到暴雨，部分大暴雨，其中温州、台州、丽水东部等地局地特大暴雨。出伏后高温消退27日至29日杭州有一次风雨过程杭州市气象台统计，今年三伏期间（7月15日至8月23日），杭州主城区平均气温30.5℃，比常年平均的29.6℃偏高0.9℃；累计出现25个高温天，比常年的21.1天偏多3.9天；最高气温39.7℃，出现在8月1日。这25个高温日大多集中在初伏到中伏。自进入末伏后，受到低涡切变及东风带系统影响，杭州的高温全面消退。出伏之后，在台风“压制”下，高温“躺平”。昨天全省高温“全军覆没”，“最热”的金华也仅34.9℃。
C | 杭州昨天的最高气温32.6℃。明天开始，今年第18号台风“沙德尔”的影响会逐渐体现。杭州市气象台预计，27日至29日杭州有一次风雨过程，风雨最强时段集中在28日。目前海上对流云团活跃，环流形势复杂，“沙德尔”进入东海后，路径还存在不确定性，请大家密切关注气象部门发布的最新预报、预警信息，特别是近期计划前往沿海地区的朋友，根据天气情况及时调整行程。
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