Moon Never Went To Waseda University – part 1

Here is some evidence:

Sun Myung Moon Autobiography

ISBN 978-1-930549-45-8 May 2010 edition

Page 66 “I boarded the Busan-to-Shimonoseki ferry at two o’clock in the morning on April 1. There was a strong wind that night, but I could not leave the deck. I stayed there watching as the lights of Busan became more and more distant. I stayed on deck until morning. On arriving in Tokyo, I entered Waseda Koutou Kougakko, a technical engineering school affiliated with Waseda University. I studied in the electrical engineering department.”

“Sun Myung Moon the early years, 1920-1953” book by Michael Breen:

ISBN 0-9531637-0-9 published in 1997

Page 48 “In Tokyo, he [Moon] enrolled in the electrical engineering department of the technical high school.” Page 58 “Classes at the technical high school were in the evenings, between 6pm and 9:30pm, which left him [Moon] free during the daytime.” Page 170 “This point [free during the daytime] was made by Lee Hee-wook in an interview with the author. Lee was in Aum’s architecture class, and in the same lodgings as Moon for one year. Lee said many Korean students worked in offices during the day and could earn forty to fifty won a month.”

Moon was in Japan for a total of 30 months from April 1st 1941 to early October 1943.

This is not enough time to get a university degree.

The Japanese regarded the Koreans as second class citizens. It is unlikely that they would have sent a Korean to Waseda University - one of the top universities in Japan.

The Japanese were using Korea to support their war effort and empire-building. That is why they sent Moon and other Koreans for training, or to the Japanese military.

Many Unification Church leaders have stated that Moon went to Waseda University.

Here are some examples:

Won-pil Kim (faithful disciple of Moon since 1946 until his death):

“In the meantime, Father ran into Mr. Duk-moon Aum, an architect, who had been his classmate at Waseda University in Tokyo.”

(http://www.tparents.org/library/Unification/Talks/WPKim/WpKim-781014.htm)

Young-Oon Kim (Perhaps the most respected UC theologian):

“Unification Theology” page 20.

“He had enrolled as an electrical engineering student at Waseda University in Japan.”

Kwang-yol Yoo (Official Unification Church historian):

“After finishing his studies in Seoul, he went to Waseda University in Japan to study electrical engineering.“

(http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks/Yoo/SM-Bio74.htm)

Neil Salonen (former National leader of USA):

“During this time, Rev. Moon studied engineering at a university in Japan.”

Talk given in 1980 on the History of the Unification Church published in the book:

Lifestyle : Conversations with Members of Unification Church ISBN 0-932894-18-6

Antonio L. Betancourt (current senior leader in USA):

“Externally he went to high school and eventually traveled to Japan where he received his degree in electrical engineering at Waseda University.”

(http://www.unification.net/stories/antoniob19991118.html)

Dr Mose Durst (former National leader of USA):

He wrote this book: To Bigotry, No Sanction

Page 63

“During the years 1941-44 he attended school at Waseda University in Tokyo.”

Tyler Hendricks (current senior leader in USA):

“And I asked myself: what power is it that draws all these Japanese women, from 20 to 70 years old, to True Father? I realized that the answer lies in Father’s college days at Waseda University in Japan. There, as on any campus in any age, there are temptations awaiting every young man and every young woman. Father has testified to how he was tempted by young women in Japan, and how he overcame their temptations. At the same time he was discovering the secret of the fall of man in spirit world. The victory in the spirit world occurred on the foundation of victory over fallen Eve on earth. To win victory over fallen Eve is to liberate fallen Eve. I felt that this power of liberating womanhood explains this powerful standard of devotion on the part of Japanese women to our Father, especially because his victory as a young man going to college took place in Japan.”

(http://www.tparents.org/UNews/Unws9911/Tyler_korea_japan_.htm)

Franco Famularo:

“At the same time, he continued his education in Korea and later in Japan where he studied electrical engineering at Waseda University in Tokyo.”

(http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Books/UcCan/UcCan-0c.htm)

Duk-moon Aum (was at the same school as Moon in Tokyo at the same time - he died 2012):

“Father and I were students in the same year at Waseda University in Tokyo, but Father’s major was engineering and my major was architecture.”

(http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks1/Aum/Aum-820600.htm)

Ken Sudo (Senior lecturer at UTS in USA for many years):

1975

Barrytown, NY Given to 120-day trainees

“When he was 19, Father went to Japan where he prepared many things to fulfill his mission. Father went to college at Waseda University in Japan. This university is just like an Ivy League school and is the most prestigious university in Japan.”

(http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks/Sudo/Sudo-750000.htm)

Nora Spurgin (current senior WFWP leader in USA):

Father said, “I’m going to Japan to attend the university.” He had decided to go to a famous university in Japan called Waseda University.

(http://www.unification.net/history/tphc/tphc-05.html)

“Walking to the Sanctuary” book (published in Japan in Oct 2000)

Page 26 shows a fake Waseda University graduation certificate for Moon.

Isamu Kuboki (National leader of Japan for many years) wrote this book:

Rev Moon, a Man of Truth in Danbury. (1989) Page 136

This is Moon’s own response to a question:

私は東京の早稲田大学で電気工学を学びました。

Or translated: I learned electrical engineering in Waseda University in Tokyo.

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Did Moon really graduate from Waseda University?

Mr Hiroshi Yamaguchi investigated in 1975

Moon Never Went To Waseda University – part 2

Moon Never Went To Waseda University – part 3

Moon Never Went To Waseda University – part 4