SMU Handa Centre's Links with Japanese New Religion Cult

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Below is an intriguing email that was initially sent to The Real Singapore, but eventually found its way to the Singapore Hall of Shame (SHS). It details the shocking failure of both the mainstream media and the new media to conduct basic story research and fact checks.

Date: 09 Nov 2012

From: XXXX XXXX
To: [email protected]

Bro,

Your CSI articles against ST reporter Miss Maria Almenoar are epic! Standards of msm reporting is really in the dumpster and we need people like you who can show the world why they are the 154th media. I was thinking of doing my own csi on ST reporter Tessa Wong but I think I wont have the same impact as you.

Tessa wong wrote a piece on SMU cancelling the opening of Handa centre for global governance and human rights (http://www.singapolitics.sg/news/smu-cancels-opening-research-centre). Typical shoddy report from the sph school of gutter reporting. If she bothered to do some simple google searches, she would learn that dr Haruhisa Handa (the financial backer of the centre) runs a Shinto-derived religion “Worldmate” (formerly known as Cosmomate (eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto_sects_and_schools).

Being a typical sham new age religions, Worldmate is a derivative of Buddhism that conducts secret rituals and sells cheap trinkets passing off as religious tokens. Under the cover of charity and welfare, Worldmate extends its influence and cash pool across the world. As they expand into new countries, its devotees increase and so too does their cash purse. I get this information from a 2003 court case involving Worldmate, Dr Harushia Handa and Tojusha Publishing inc (www.wmdata.main.jp/saiban.html). The Tokyo national tax bureau found that Worldmate concealed 6 billion yen of income. This money is collected from followers as fees for the exorcism of evil spirits. Also, Handa was sued by his female followers for sexual harassment! He settled this with 5.5. million Yen for each of his victims. Now they remain quiet as part of the settlement deal.

But organisations like SMU love people like Handa because he can bring in loads of money to be patron of centres and no one cares about where he got the money from. Curtin university set up one such centre thru his patronage (www.smh.com.au/entertainment/opera/behind-every-good-opera-theres-a-very-generous-patron). Handa has also delivered aid to the fukushima nuclear meltdown recovery efforts (huffingtonpost.com/katherine-marshall/311-in-japan-untold-stor_b_1336636.html). I wouldn’t be surprised that at his level of influence and connections to Shinto religion, he is somehow financed by Yakuza.

But we will never know the full truth unless the ST covers the indepth story. But I doubt tessa wong will give me the time of day. I hope this information is useful for you bro.

The questionable character of Dr Handa is shocking and warrants deeper inspection. SHS intends to take this up with SMU and relevant authorities.

But what is equally shocking is that this information is easily verified, and can be surfaced through a few quick online searches. It thus makes you wonder how everyone could have missed this?

Wall of text, lazy to copy all.

http://sporehallofshame.blogspot.sg/2012/11/smu-handa-centres-links-with-japanese.html
 
If not carried by the MSM then this story, whether there is any truth to it or not, will, like numerous other stories, be dead and buried in cyberspace.
 
It is covered in MSM in Japan and this org is very very very tainted with controversy. Something interesting may develop.
 
Ho Kwon Ping is "Buddhist"..... Does he supports this Cult? Maybe he is a member?

SMU Board of Trustees : Profile of Trustee

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Mr Ho Kwon Ping
Executive Chairman
Banyan Tree Holdings Limited
 
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