Hate Crimes Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Japan: The Victims Speak

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Hate Crimes Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Japan: The Victims Speak

The anti-cult campaigns following the assassination of Shinzo Abe generated not only hate speech but physical violence as well. Two women tell their stories. by Massimo Introvigne The Japan Branch Office of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Ebina, Japan. That hate speech generates hate crimes is being dramatically confirmed in Japan, where a number of Jehovah’s Witnesses were physically assaulted after a campaign against them was started following the as…