２２日にも「質問権」行使　宗教審が内容了承―旧統一教会巡り永岡文科相諮問

　世界平和統一家庭連合（旧統一教会）を巡る問題で、宗教法人審議会（会長＝北沢安紀・慶応大教授）は２１日、宗教法人法に基づく「報告徴収・質問権」の行使を了承した。永岡桂子文部科学相が同日、教団に報告を求める具体的な内容や理由とともに諮問していた。２２日にも権限を行使した調査に乗り出す。
　行使されれば、１９９５年の法改正で質問権などが創設されて以降初めてとなる。（2022/11/21-20:28）

Japan's Religious Juridical Persons Council gave the go ahead Monday for the government to ask the Unification Church questions under the religious cooperation law.
   The government will open an inquiry into the religious group, currently called Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, as early as Tuesday using the right to demand reports and ask questions, informed sources said.
   It will be the first time for the right, stipulated in the law through its revision in 1995, to be exercised.
   Cultural minister Keiko Nagaoka, who sought the council's approval Monday, also received opinions about questions to be asked and reasons for asking them from the 19 members of the advisory body, many of whom are university professors and religious figures, as the law requests. All the members, including Keio University Prof. Aki Kitazawa, head of the council, were involved in compiling the criteria for exercising the questioning right.
   According to the ministry's Cultural Affairs Agency, the members at the day's closed-door meeting unanimously approved Nagaoka's plan to demand the Unification Church reply to the pages of questions concerning the group's structure, management, assets, revenues and expenditures.