<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the bitter history of X-JAPAN lead singer being brainwashed by cults for twelve years: cults are around</h1>
X JAPAN is a five-member male rock/heavy metal band formed in Japan at the end of the 20th century, with more than 50 million copies of music, and the musical style is mainly the power/speed metal of symphonic metal elements, and over time they have developed into a band with avant-garde rock elements, specializing in interpreting surging love songs. They are regarded as the founding fathers of Japan's unique visual culture, and they are also the most epoch-making legendary band in Japan, which has had considerable influence on later musical generations. In 2007, Rolling Stone magazine ranked their debut album BLUE BLOOD as the 15th most rock album in Japanese history.
Lead singer Toshl, real name Deyama Toshimitsu, also known as TOSHI, Ryu gen とし, rock band X JAPAN lead singer and band members, the vocals are extremely magnetic, rough and hoarse in the early days, and high-pitched and emotional in the later stages.
The soul of the band, who abruptly quit the group at the height of his career and went solo, was the beginning of his nightmare, when Toshi was controlled by a cult for 12 years and the person who deceived him was not anyone else but his beloved wife, Kashi Shibuya.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > flashbacks .</h1>
He was the lead singer Toshl, who had been at the apex of the rock and roll world, and for twelve years, he became a wealth-making tool for the cult group Home of Heart, and was robbed of at least 1.2 billion yen in property, at the mercy of it, not only to monitor his every move, but also to help recruit believers. In 2014, four years after Toshi successfully broke away from cult control, he plucked up the courage to write the book Brainwashing, which is Toshi's decades of painful memories and materials that shocked all Of Japan and rock fans around the world. On the one hand, in order to let the world know the truth and not to have another victim like him, he wants to use his own story to warn the world and increase the public's vigilance. On the other hand, it is also to apologize to the victims who have been deceived by him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the original Toshi ·</h1>
Toshi，X JAPAN
Born in Tateyama City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, Toshi is the elder of three brothers, the father of a civil servant who works in the court, his mother a piano teacher, and his grandparents who are tatami workers. Kindergarten with YOSHIKI classmates, and became close friends, both love music in the student era has begun to emerge, the two in high school sophomore renamed the orchestra "X", changed to Toshl as the lead singer, after graduation at The proposal of Toshl the two went to Tokyo to develop, in 1989 with the "X" orchestra lead singer "TOSHI" debut, many times on the ORICON ranking, red and white singing competition and sold the Tokyo Dome tickets, becoming a representative rock band in Japan, In 1992, the band changed its name to "X JAPAN" and went to the United States to develop, and later became an internationally renowned rock band.
The album BLUE BLOOD, released by CBS/SONY in 1988, became a hallmark of X's mainstream debut. Japan's largest music chart debuted at number four, selling 600,000 copies by the end of 1989. In 1992, X-Japan has begun to enter the U.S. market and can be said to be at the peak of its career.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > turning point in life</h1>
And this woman is the woman who changed Toshi's life, and this woman is one of the main members of the cult group Home of Heart.
The woman's beautiful appearance was named Moritani Kao, who in 1986 won the top spot among 25,000 people in the audition held by Shochiku, and made her debut in the movie In Search of Idols (Japanese: アイドルを探せ). Since then, he has been active as an idol. In 1993, he met TOSHI in the opera Hamlet, in which he starred. The two married in February 1997 after a four-year relationship.
This encounter is one of the major points of disagreement in my life. After performing with Moriya in the October 1993 rock musical Hamlet, I didn't connect for a while, but six months later in the spring of 1994, she began sending letters to my home in Los Angeles. As time went by, the number of letters I sent became more and more frequent, and I began to receive letters from her every two weeks, once a week, and every three days. It was an era when there was no email and mobile phone. Whenever I read her letter, I always see her incarnate as Hamlet's lover, Ophelia, who loves Hamlet with all her heart, even though it is only on stage. And those letters written in beautiful, powerful words, concerned with my physical condition and state of mind, became "spiritual comfort" for me living alone in a foreign country. Before that, I had never loved a woman, even if I was involved with women. I feel like a lonely person who has neither truly loved nor been loved by others. “
The above is an excerpt from Brainwashing
Just when Toshi was physically and mentally exhausted because of his busy schedule and the differences at home, the actress who had starred in "Hamlet" together took the initiative to show her kindness, and Moriya sent letters to Toshi many times, and Soon Toshi was attracted to this girl. After they began to associate, she took Toshi to listen to the so-called healing music and persuaded her to be "her original self". The suggestions all seemed very plausible, and Toshi at the time thought she was the only person in the world to be believed in, but in fact, it was a planned seduction and brainwashing.
Toshi obeyed her wishes, married her, quit X JAPAN, and was taken to participate in the expensive "Spiritual Growth Course" just after the farewell concert, and was controlled step by step by people with hearts, and under the guidance of the spirit and the persecution of violence, he became the living signboard and cash cow of the brainwashing group.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the initiator of the event</h1>
Toshi's 12-year puppet life was initiated by this Home of Heart cult group, and the leader of this cult is named MASAYA.
"Debuted as a singer, started a business at the age of 19, owned several dance halls and coffee bars in his early 20s, founded a resort at the age of 25, became the youngest director of a public company at the age of 27, and the album was nominated for The Album of the Year at the Japan Golden Disc Awards..."
MASAYA has a magical resume that holds on to Toshi's heart. As a musician, Toshi's focus, the Japan Golden Disc Award, is precisely because of this that Toshi is completely impressed.
They even appeared on TV together, saying that Toshi had publicly stated that he had not been brainwashed. The power and tactics of cult organizations can be said to make the rich feel cold behind them.
MASAYA tells Toshi the way to really get happiness. That is, to participate in a "course" that can "remove self-awareness and return to pure essence".
Toshi, who is becoming more and more interested in MASAYA, participates in various "courses" at the "instigation" of his wife, Kaoru Moriya.
As Toshi himself put it: "The signature on the course application form is the irretrievable 'ticket to the dark world'"...
Cults package and promote a mysterious and mysterious technology that can bring real support and happiness, and thus shape their authority. The "course" did not bring about the discovery of the so-called "essence", but the fear that arose eroded Toshi's body and mind. Toshi's subconscious has established a chain of reflection against swearing and violence. Even before the "Last Night" dissolution concert began, the ex-wife and Masaya punched and kicked Toshi.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > TOSHI in hell</h1>
"Your ego is too strong to destroy the universe"
"You're the one who created the disgusting guys in the visual department!"
"You are the great rotten man who has depraved the young people of the world!"
"Money is energy, people with strong egos use money to destroy the earth, and only people like Masaya, who are weak in self, can use money to create beautiful things"
He had only been married to Moriya for ten months, and almost all the money flowed to MASAYA, and Moriya also used the fact that living with him would affect training as an excuse to move to the cult. But Moriya was still in charge of surveillance, preaching, and taking his money, and the date of THE LAST LIVE overlapped with the course date, and finally he was specifically allowed to go out during rehearsals and concerts.
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TOSHI had been brainwashed quite badly by then, and over the next 12 years, through intensive courses, it was repeatedly instilled into Toshi's brain; accompanied by constant brainwashing, beatings, and forced confessions.
In 12 years, Toshi has also become a walking cash cow for MASAYA and Home of Heart. In addition to giving all his income to home of heart, after the resurrection concert, he continued to run the trip and sing and sell CDs, but many bosses bought tickets to support him, invited him to dinner, helped him book tickets for high-end hotels or commercial cars and paid the bill, and occasionally some people directly gave him pocket money. In fact, TOSHI did not have his own money at that time, and when someone gave him money, he also took it to repay the usury loans he had borrowed before, and usually continued to live by convenience stores, with a meal of five or six hundred yen.
Toshi was even packaged as a healing musician, held a two-year "poetry tour" activity, through the continuous holding of small signings, selling Home of heart music products, footprints covering more than 500 places in Japan, in order to increase revenue, from 2001, Toshi began to enter various welfare institutions, in the name of public welfare, in fact, still use Toshi's fame to sell music products. For five years, Toshi went to 5 or 6 institutions every day to sell goods, visited more than 5,000 institutions, and generated more than 300 million yen in revenue... In front of fans and the media, Toshi became a representative of healing music; he chanted softly and told the past; he cared for children and the elderly, and praised the ideas of MASAYA...
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > escape</h1>
The contact with society has led to the gradual elimination of the psychological barrier between him in general society and the words of MASAYA and Moriya.
At the end of 2008, TOSHI appeared in court with MASAYA and Moriya because of the HOH defendant's matter, and before appearing in court, TOSHI was still insulted by them as a punchbox, and when he appeared in court, TOSHI originally thought that MASAYA would say something big to refute the court, and as a result, MASAYA couldn't say anything, and was even ridiculed by the judge that he was not good at mind control? Tell him to have that attitude. This appearance became the main key to TOSHI's growing suspicions of Masaya and Moriya.
Many of the things that happened after that made him even more confused, such as right-wing organizations running to HOH's door to protest their child abuse and brainwashing, and also letting TOSHI know that MASAYA was entangled with the underworld. In addition, MASAYA built an art museum-like mansion with a swimming pool in the countryside, and many imported cars next to the mansion, and even the suspected Moriya clothes in MASAYA's bedroom, all of which made him feel that something was not quite right.
On May 28, 2009 (before X JAPAN first went to Taiwan to open LIVE), the case of the HOH defendant (who had appeared in court before TOSHI) was sentenced, and although TOSHI himself was not a defendant and the incident happened without his complete knowledge, the news still moved out to TOSHI's name. This made him feel very uncomfortable, and he also began to have physical symptoms such as rib pain, palpitations and headaches. Also because the plaintiff complained that MASAYA and others brainwashed her into thinking that if she did not continue to participate in the course, her life would be like hell, and she would continue to participate in the course and pay the fee, TOSHI also realized that her situation seemed to be the same, and began to doubt whether she was in her forties and whether she had normal judgment.
On July 4, 2009, Toshi, determined to flee, cut off contact with Moriya Kao while working on recording in Okinawa. Toshi, who is trying to evade surveillance by severing contact, is clearly naïve. On July 7, 2009, when Toshi came to the door of the recording studio, Moriya Kao was already there "waiting for a long time". As soon as the recording ends, Toshi is kidnapped by Moriya Kaoru and Home of Heart's staff to the mansion where masaya recorded the MV, beating, cursing, preaching, and threatening to sell Toshi to the underworld, and this abuse continues until 4 a.m. With a deep despair and a body that had reached its limits, Toshi finally fell. On October 22, 2009, during an event, Toshi suddenly fell to the ground, unable to move, and was admitted to the local hospital.
Toshi's anxiety and panic, as well as his attempt to flee immediately in spite of his body, made the company's boss, Mr. Mikami (pseudonym), perceive that something was wrong. Under his persuasion, Toshi was secretly sent to the home of his friend, Miss Oda, to live temporarily.
Here, Toshi meets an old man he will remember for a lifetime, Miss Oda's father. It was because of his encouragement and tolerance that Toshi had the courage to take the crucial step of breaking with MASAYA.
The quiet force dragged Toshi back from his fear.
On December 26, 2009, an exit statement was sent to Home of Heart's headquarters, and on the 27th, a penniless Toshi borrowed a sum of money from Mr. Mikami and entrusted Lawyer K of a Tokyo law firm as an agent to begin the fight back. The lawyer was dumbfounded when he saw the accounting documents sent by MASAYA and Kao Moriya. For 12 years, the source of income has been squeezed by MASAYA and Moritani Ka, leaving behind hundreds of millions of yen of tax payments and outstanding loans, and even personal insurance has been cut off for more than 10 years; so that when the company and personal passbooks are retrieved, only a few hundred yen are left in the account... In this case, there is no way to even file for bankruptcy. At this time, Mr. Oyama, who took in Toshi, gave Toshi a sum of money and living expenses to file for bankruptcy, and encouraged him to go to the United States to find Yoshiki, the head of X-Japan, to continue his music career. At that time, TOSHI even planned to end his career as a singer because he felt that he could make a lot of money for his singing, but his relationship with his family and friends would be ruined at the same time. But because he also needed money to declare bankruptcy, and the expenses of hospitalization and the like also made him owe a lot of debts, he still had to worry about how to live in the future. After listening, he decided to go out and talk first. And the band leader YOSHIKI, who has been in the band with friends he has known since kindergarten and has been working hard for many years, gave him a new songBORN TO BE FREE, which touched him and made him decide to continue singing.
After returning to Japan, he held a press conference to officially announce the status of the whole thing, and then met with other victims to know that Moriya and Masaya had an affair, and it may even have been that MASAYA sent Moriya to the immortals to jump at the beginning. Toshi was squeezed out of more than a billion yen, in order to sue Moriya and Masaya, to return their illegal gains, he wrote a complaint about the encounters of these years, and because Masaya changed his name and was still selling his CDs and books, he decided to write these encounters into a book and publish it, hoping that no one would be victimized in the future, and at the same time told the people who cared about him that he had really come out of the brainwashing.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > postscript</h1>
The Toshi incident is not an accidental single case, in Japan and even the world, artists are controlled by cults to brainwash the incident is not uncommon, the high income of the artist and the high pressure of the artist's life, which is one of the main reasons why they look for celebrities to start. And we ordinary people must be more vigilant so as not to be deceived. Cults lurk all around our lives, and they even evolve into different types
Things like mind growth, financial groups, and maybe even Workshop disguised as an educational brand are all possible!
All localities and provinces and cities in our country have successively introduced anti-cult policies and methods, and even rewarded reports.
Reference URL: http://gdga.gd.gov.cn/xxgk/zcwj/content/post_2962250.html
Here is the China Anti-Cult Network: http://www.chinafxj.cn/
When encountering a cult in life, please ensure your own safety first, and then contact the relevant departments to report it.
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