The Words of the Fujita Family
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The Words of the Fujita Family |
Hyung-jin
Moon sent a calligraphic message he wrote for Ms. Fujita, which could
be translated as "Holy and filial character moves Heaven."
On July 11, with True Parents' permission, a Blessing Ceremony and Seunghwa Ceremony were held for Takako Fujita, a Japanese woman whose earthly existence ended when she took her own life on July 12, 1997, a week after her twenty-seventh birthday. Via the internet, twenty thousand members in three hundred churches throughout Japan watched these ceremonies take place in front of an audience of over a hundred in the Tokyo church headquarters' main hall. Few of those watching would have known Ms. Fujita personally, but thousands of our Japanese members over the years have had the same heart-wrenching experience that precipitated her death.
She was born on July 5, 1970, in the city of Niihama, 135 km southwest of Osaka. She studied in the Social Welfare Department of Kacho College in the city of Kyoto. During her college years, she was introduced to Divine Principle and joined the church. After graduation, she worked for a time at Fushimi Academy, a facility for the physically handicapped in Kyoto. A friend recalled, "Takako was a kind person, who smiled all the time. She was good at listening to other people, perhaps thanks to her profession as an instructor at a welfare institution."
After receiving the blessing among the 360,000 couples on August 25, 1995, she gave up her work with handicapped children in order to devote herself to full-time church work as a spiritual foundation for the blessed family she hoped to have. She and her Korean husband started their family life in December 1996. The following March, while visiting her family, she was abducted and forcibly confined.
Perhaps those who have survived a similar experience can understand the anguish Ms. Fujita suffered in an environment she could not remove herself from, where people intent on destroying her faith battered her soul on a daily basis with waves of malevolence toward a faith she valued deeply enough to have placed her marital future in True Parents' hands. Her death came early in the morning in the same apartment in which for four months she had been confined.
Rev. Hyung-jin Moon sent a calligraphic message he wrote for Ms. Fujita, which could be translated as "Holy and filial character moves Heaven." In a videotaped message, he said, "I offer my wholehearted gratitude to the True Parents for granting this Blessing Ceremony and Seunghwa Ceremony. My soul aches in acknowledging that we were unable to dedicate her Seunghwa for the last thirteen years, but now we offer our sincere prayers for a heroine of the Unification Family, Takako Fujita, for her eternal life as embraced by True Parents' magnanimous love and grace."
Rev. Gentaro Kajikuri, HSA-UWC -- Japan president, who presided over the ceremonies, said, "She must have endured with one thought; that is, to manifest her accusation, resistance and protest to those who had carried out her abduction and confinement even by sacrificing her own life, her last and her only resort under duress.... Her fate stirs our determination to carry on our protests against those who harass and ill-treat our members behind closed doors."
Rev. Hideo Oyamada, boonbongwang to Japan, concluded his representative prayer with the words, "In the presence of Moon Heung-jin, commander in chief of the spiritual world, and Hyo-jin nim, Young-jin nim, Hee-jin nim, Hye-jin nim, the five great saints, historical kings and the 400 billion absolute, good spirits, we pray that Takako Fujita can come to earth and invest her whole and complete self toward establishing the heavenly kingdom in the coming nine hundred days until the designated day of January 13, 2013."