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原标题：欧美同学会海归小镇（长沙·智能制造）揭牌中新社长沙9月12日电 (向一鹏)欧美同学会海归小镇(长沙·智能制造)揭牌仪式12日在长沙市望城区举行。    TOKYO -- Japan’s government asked a court Friday to revoke the legal status of the Unification Church after an Education Ministry investigation concluded the group for decades has systematically manipulated its followers into donating money, sowing fear and harming their families.The request submitted to the Tokyo District Court asks for it to issue a dissolution order revoking the church's status as a religious organization. Education Ministry officials submitted 5,000 pieces of documents and evidence in cardboard boxes to the court to support its request. The process involves hearings and appeals from both sides and would take a while. If the order is approved and its legal status is stripped, the church could still operate but would lose its tax exemption privilege as a religious organization and would face financial setbacks.The request was made a day after Education Minister Masahito Moriyama announced a panel of experts had endorsed the revocation request based on the findings of the ministry's investigation into the church's fundraising tactics and other allegations. The Japan branch of the South Korea-based church, which officially calls itself the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, earlier condemned the government's decision.“It is our deepest regret that the Japanese government made the serious decision based on distorted information provided by a leftist lawyers’ group formed for the purpose of destroying our organization,” the church said in a statement late Thursday. “It will be a stain in Japan’s Constitutional history.”As part of the Education Ministry investigation, officials interviewed more than 170 people allegedly harmed by the church's fundraising tactics and other problems. The church failed to respond to dozens of questions during the seven inquiries, Moriyama said Thursday. The church tried to steer its followers’ decision-making, using manipulative tactics, making them buy expensive goods and donate beyond their financial ability and causing fear and harm to them and their families, Moriyama said Thursday. The tactics seriously deviated from the law on religious groups, in which the purpose of the churches’ legal status is to give people peace of mind, he said. “The activities are wrongful conducts under the Civil Code and their damages are immense.”The Agency for Cultural Affairs found 32 cases of civil lawsuits acknowledging damages totaling 2.2 billion yen ($14.7 million) for 169 people, while the amount of settlements reached in or outside court totaled 20.4 billion yen ($137 million) and involved 1,550 people, Moriyama said.Japan has in place hurdles for restraining religious activities due to lessons from the prewar and wartime oppression of freedom of religion and thought.The investigation followed months of public outrage and questions about the group’s fundraising and recruitment tactics after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination last year. The man accused of shooting Abe allegedly was motivated by the former prime minister’s links to the church that he blamed for bankrupting his family.Decades of cozy ties between the church and Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party were revealed since Abe's assassination and have eroded support for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government. Kishida told reporters Thursday that the government’s decision to seek the revocation order was made carefully based on facts and was not political, denying speculation it was intended to shore up dwindling public support.The Unification Church obtained legal status as a religious organization in Japan in 1968 amid an anti-communist movement supported by Abe’s grandfather, former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi.The church has acknowledged excessive donations but says the problem has been mitigated for more than a decade. It also has pledged further reforms.Experts say Japanese followers are asked to pay for sins committed by their ancestors during Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, and that the majority of the church’s worldwide funding comes from Japan.If the church's status is revoked, it would be the first under civil law. Two earlier cases involved criminal charges — the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, which carried out a sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and the Myokakuji group, whose executives were convicted of fraud.。全国人大常委会副委员长、欧美同学会(中国留学人员联谊会)会长丁仲礼，湖南省委副书记、省长毛伟明出席仪式并共同为小镇揭牌。

二 | 欧美同学会海归小镇(长沙·智能制造)致力于打造国家重要先进制造业高地，以高端留学人才集聚为原动力，以智能制造为核心发展方向，着力为海归人才、高层次人才量身打造一座生态、智慧、活力、宜居、宜业的现代化新城。湖南省委常委、长沙市委书记吴桂英指出，长沙深入实施“强省会”战略，做大做强科创平台，全力建设海归小镇。

三 | 下一步，将以此次海归小镇揭牌为重大契机，进一步加强与欧美同学会的深度对接，着力打造宜居宜业、产城融合、生态友好、合作开放的国际化小镇范本。欧美同学会副会长曹卫星表示，长沙是欧美同学会10个海归小镇申建地之一，自2020年11月启动申建工作以来，围绕“智能制造”的产业定位，加强规划设计、完善基础配套、加大政策支持、强化项目导入，已通过两个阶段的专家评审，并按照所提评审建议持续推进各项工作，申建工作取得明显成效。海归小镇围绕“一个小镇一个产业”的基本定位，以地方主导性产业发展为核心，以市场化的运营模式，有相对吸引力的营商环境和支持政策，是由欧美同学会与有关地方政府共同创建的攻克“卡脖子”科技的策源地、“专精特新”企业的孵化地、战略性新兴产业的创新高地。(完)返回搜狐，查看更多责任编辑：