Sarah Nishioka

Korea’s brave and strong patriots will prevail. They are all heroes of freedom. 🇰🇷

Reframing imperfections as puzzles to be solved will make us better off. We all have things to work on, and that's what makes life interesting. Want to hear more on this topic? Watch my latest podcast episode on YouTube: youtu.be/hBmbuYZqX-M

People ask me all the time, “How do I keep my kids in the faith?” The answer is simpler than most people want it to be: your example matters more than your words. Children learn by imitation long before they learn by instruction. If you want your kids to be more grateful, let them see your gratitude. If you want them to complain less, let them see you complain less. If you want them to have faith, let them see you practice it sincerely and wholeheartedly. A child watches the way you live far more closely than they listen to what you say.

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

So sorrowful. Release the Mother of Peace who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. #ReleasetheMotherofPeace @POTUS @SecRubio @RobertKennedyJr

@monarchreport25 So sorrowful. Release the Mother of Peace, who we agree deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dr. Hak Ja Han fell multiple times in her 70-square-foot cell at Seoul Detention Center in January. She never complained. According to her lawyers, she does not express pain unless it is severe. She tried to maintain a composed appearance. She asked only for painkillers. No one at the facility diagnosed the shoulder injury. It was only discovered after a court granted her third medical suspension from detention and she was transferred to a hospital. Doctors found the left shoulder damage that had gone untreated for months. The question that should keep someone in Seoul awake tonight: how does a post-cardiac-surgery 83-year-old fall repeatedly in your custody, ask for painkillers for months, and no one orders imaging on her shoulder? The answer is in the pattern. November 2025: three-day release for emergency eye surgery. Returned to custody. February 2026: ten-day release for fall injuries. Extension denied. Returned. March 2026: third suspension granted. Confined to hospital. April 14, 2026: shoulder surgery. For an injury sustained in January. 204 days since her arrest on September 23, 2025. No conviction. No verdict. She arrived for questioning in a wheelchair, still recovering from heart surgery. The court detained her anyway. A former political prisoner from communist Czechoslovakia wrote publicly that her conditions are worse than what he endured in 1974. Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo called it lawfare. On April 3, she was nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. She received that nomination recovering from a surgery that should never have been necessary. Because the injury should have been caught in January. Because she should not have been falling in the first place. When a detention facility cannot keep a patient from falling, cannot diagnose what those falls break, and the patient is too dignified to scream, the system is not failing. It is choosing not to look. Source: Internal Message from FFWPU

Dear Chuck Schumer, Hi. Black dude here. I can trace my family ancestry to slavery. I even know where they were slaves. My mom experienced Jim Crow. I think I’ve watched every episode of “Eyes On the Prize” when I was younger. With that said… Can you directly explain to me how the SAVE Act is “Jim Crow 2.0?” Literally every black person I know has ID. Literally every black person I know has a car or at least a ride. Literally every black person I know knows how to vote (well… except the ones with felonies… but they don’t count). With your advanced white liberal thinking, you must know more than me. Apparently, as I experience daily on this app, white liberals are experts on being black; even more so than actual black folks. Perhaps you could explain it like I’m five. I’d look it up on the internet, but Kathy Hochul has already told me I don’t know what a computer is and Joe Biden said I can’t navigate it, anyway. Looking forward to your answer. No hugs. Zeek

As Japan's dissolution order against the Unification Church spreads concern across the religious community, other faith groups have begun to speak out. Different beliefs, one shared concern. The Happiness Realization Party is a Japanese political party rooted in the religious movement Happy Science, advocating for freedom of religion, limited government, and strong national defense. Happiness Realization Party — Statement Summary: 【Background】 On March 4, 2026, the Tokyo High Court ordered the dissolution of the former Unification Church, stripping it of its status as a religious corporation and initiating asset liquidation. 【Our Position】 This statement does not defend the former Unification Church. However, the state should not be the arbiter of religious legitimacy. That judgment belongs to the free market of religion. 【Core Concern】 This is the first dissolution order based on civil tort law — a dangerous precedent that opens the door to arbitrary state intervention in religious affairs. 【Freedom of Religion at Stake】 Asset liquidation, including places of worship, will severely restrict religious activity. This is a direct violation of freedom of religion, regardless of claims that such freedom remains protected. 【Rule of Law】 Linking an individual's criminal act — the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe — to the conduct of an entire organization undermines the principles of a law-governed state. 【Closing Stance】 Freedom of religion is the foundation of all human rights. Its erosion threatens freedom of conscience, speech, and press. The party remains committed to the values of Freedom, Democracy, and Faith. @hr_party_TW

#BitterWinter　2026年3月6日　(Google Chrome 翻訳) 日本：統一教会の信者数十万人が礼拝所を奪われる 教会の解散によって免税資格が剥奪されるだけだと主張する者もいるが、清算人らはすでに260の礼拝所を閉鎖している。 パトリシア・デュバル 東京高等裁判所による家庭連合（旧統一教会）解散決定は、3月4日（水）午前11時に言い渡された。直後、清算人伊藤久氏は教会側の主任弁護人である福本弁護士に電話をかけ、「今日、清算人が全国の教会を回る。私は本部教会に行って清算手続きの説明をする」と告げた。約1時間後、5人から10人の弁護士が警察官に付き添われ、全国の教会を訪れ、清算手続きの説明、全財産の差し押さえ、礼拝堂の鍵の没収を行った。これは全国260ある統一教会の大半で行われた。 20人の清算人が東京・渋谷にある教会本部に到着し、教会を閉鎖した。職員は教会への立ち入りを禁止され、自宅待機を命じられた。 清算ウェブサイトに関する情報は、高等法院の判決直後に公開されました。ドメインは 高等法院の判決の3週間前、2月13日に既に取得されており、6つのPDF文書も既に公開されていました。すべてが綿密に準備されていたのです。 教会員の一人はこう報告している。「高等法院の判決が公表される前から、約1,000人の弁護士と警察官が協力し、清算手続きが円滑に進むよう尽力して​​いたようです。政府と裁判所は、法人の解散後も信教の自由は守られると保証していましたが、私たちはすぐに宗教活動ができなくなりました。全国の教会に清算人が一斉に派遣されたことは、まるで犯罪組織への大規模な捜査のようでした。解散中、全国の教会は閉鎖され、信者たちは礼拝の場を失いました。」 これらすべては、改宗した信者たちが損害賠償を求めて起こした数十年前の民事訴訟のみを根拠に出された地方裁判所の解散命令を支持する判決が出た後、起きたことだ。民事裁判所は教会が「社会規範」と「社会的妥当性」に違反したとの結論を下していた。 国連特別報告者4人は10月1日に公式声明を発表し、「公共の福祉」という曖昧で過度に広範な概念を害したとの主張に基づいて同組織を解散させる決定は、国際人権法、特に宗教を実践する権利を制限するための非常に限定的な根拠を列挙している市民的及び政治的権利に関する国際規約第18条第3項に違反しているとして懸念を表明した。 高等裁判所は、数百ページに及ぶ判決の中で、わずか2ページで彼らの懸念に次のように答えた。 解散命令は、宗教法人の法人格を剥奪する効果のみを有し、信者の宗教活動を禁止または制限する法的効果は一切有しません。これは事実上、全くの誤りです。 – また、日本の民法上の不法行為であって、公共の福祉を著しく害することが明らかと認められる行為は、規約第18条第3項にいう「公共の安全、公共の秩序、公共の健康若しくは道徳又は他の者の基本的な権利及び自由」を侵害する行為とみなされる可能性がある。 言い換えれば、裁判所は、公共の福祉に基づく解散は正当であり、したがって国際人権法の下でも正当であるという、同義反復的で非常に誤った推論を用いた。 この決定は明らかに国際法に違反しており、国際機関と、第二次世界大戦後に日本が主張した人権擁護の約束に対する軽蔑を示すものである。 bitterwinter.org/japan-hundreds… #日本 #家庭連合 #旧統一教会 #信教の自由 #東京高裁 #解散命令 #公共の福祉

History has repeatedly shown that when society remains silent as the rights of one religious group are stripped away, such actions often expand and eventually affect many other faith communities. Regardless of whether people agree with a particular religion’s teachings, protecting fundamental religious freedom and the rule of law remains an essential value that a democratic society cannot ignore. #ReligiousFreedom

JAPAN: 🇯🇵 Shuts Down 260 Churches Overnight - Hundreds of thousands of believers suddenly lose places of worship. What happens when a religious community loses not only its legal status, but also its physical places of worship? The decision was announced at 11 a.m. Within hours, churches across Japan were being closed. @FOREF_EU #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomOfReligion #HumanRights #Japan open.substack.com/pub/peterzoehr…

Japan is EVICTING the dead of the Unification Church. After the dissolution order, loved ones laid to rest will lose their homes. Liquidators showed up at Oze Cemetery in Gunma Prefecture, a place where parents, spouses, and children of Family Federation members are buried. It didn’t end with just losing their spaces to worship. Now, members will have no place to visit their loved ones who passed.

家庭連合で「尾瀬」といえば尾瀬霊園。 解散命令が確定すると僕たちの大切な家族が眠る霊園まで失くなるという､､､ 霊園は遺族にとって故人に心を向け､祈り語らう大切な場所です｡ どうか大切なこの場所がこれからも変わらず守られ､安心して手を合わせることのできる環境が保たれますように。

On March 6, Dr. Hak Ja Han left the courtroom mid-hearing, citing health concerns. During the proceedings, her defense attorney requested, "The defendant's health condition is not good — please permit her to leave before evidence examination begins." The court verified the escort conditions and granted the request. She has been in pretrial detention for more than 160 days. She is 83 years old. The detention facility has not been able to meet her medical needs. Three falls inside the facility. Pain that spread beyond what painkillers could manage. Late-stage glaucoma. A serious heart condition. At a February hearing, her attorneys told the court the facility could not provide adequate treatment — that she would need hospitalization or a dedicated nurse. She was temporarily released twice — for eye surgery, then for heart surgery. Both times, the court rejected requests to extend those releases and sent her back. A bail application has been pending since mid-February. No ruling has been issued. The question is why a facility responsible for her custody cannot provide it — and why requests to allow proper treatment keep getting denied. Imagine your grandmother — frail, in failing health — spending more than 160 days alone in a narrow, cold, hard room. Is that not cruel? How can this be done to someone before any verdict has even been reached? We pray for her health and for a decision guided by conscience. Source: news.tvchosun.com/site/data/html…

A sitting Japanese senator just asked the question nobody in mainstream media will touch. Kitamura Haruo is a veteran lawyer, elected to Japan's upper house in July 2025 with nearly a million votes. He's raising a simple question about the Unification Church dissolution order: Was this really about the law? Or about politics? He said : "The attacks on the Unification Church were so extreme in some quarters that I thought something was off." His explanation: The church's political arm, the International Federation for Victory over Communism, was actively pushing for a spy prevention law in Japan. Japan remains the only G7 nation without a dedicated law to punish espionage. Left-wing groups saw this as a direct threat. "When they were pushing hard for a spy prevention law, left-wing activists realized their position would be in danger and made them their target. If a spy prevention law passed, it would be a serious problem for them. So the strategy became: crush the Unification Church to weaken the International Federation for Victory over Communism." "Is it really safe to go ahead with a dissolution order like this? When you look at the balance with other religious groups, and the relationship to religious freedom... is this really okay? I honestly have questions," he says. Tokyo High Court rules on the appeal March 4. Two weeks from now. This is the first dissolution order in Japanese history based on civil complaints alone. No criminal charges. No leader arrested. The precedent it sets will reach far beyond one church. Sources : 1. Bitter Winter - "Behind the Dissolution of the Unification Church: Japan's Communist Party, North Korea, and China" (May 6, 2025) bitterwinter.org/behind-the-dis… 2. Bitter Winter - "Japan, Misunderstanding the Unification Church: An Interview with Masumi Fukuda" (Jan 2026) bitterwinter.org/japan-misunder…

Japan is showing the way for the rest of the free world.

The Mother of Peace released for a few days of care. How long can she possibly withstand this torturous experience? #ReleaseTheMotherOfPeace

@monarchreport25 Thank you for shedding light on the Family Federation’s “Victory over Communism’s teaching” vs power hungry communist doctrine. #FaithFreedomPeace #ReleaseTheMotherofPeace

Thank you for delving into the truth! #FaithFreedomPeace #ReleaseTheMotherOfPeace

@GordonGChang Yes he will! This obsolete S.Korean Power-Drama has got to go. S.Korean government needs to wake up to democracy! #FaithFreedomPeace

History will exonerate Yoon Suk Yeol.