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Unification Church Dissolution in Japan: An In-Depth Analysis of a Wrong Decision. 2. Civil Torts ...

Bitter Winter English 04 Apr 2025
Continuing our examination of the decision of the Tokyo District Court pronouncing the dissolution of the Unification Church, I will now examine the second, third, and fourth question the judges answered ... A view of the Tokyo District Court.
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Unification Church Dissolution in Japan: An In-Depth Analysis of a Wrong Decision. 1. “Spiritual Sales” ...

Bitter Winter English 03 Apr 2025
The Tokyo District Court ... On March 25, 2025, the Tokyo District Court ... The decision of the Tokyo District Court is biased, grounded on pseudo-scientific theories of mind control, and contradictory.
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Kyodo News Digest: April 3, 2025

Kyodo 03 Apr 2025
The Japanese immigration authorities rejected a call for releasing additional footage of Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali in a decision dated March 26, and her family plans to challenge the decision at the Tokyo District Court possibly in May.
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Unification Church: Why Are UN Special Rapporteurs Not Allowed to Visit Japan?

Bitter Winter English 02 Apr 2025
The dissolution of the church was ordered on March 25 in first degree by the Tokyo District Court after a government request spurred by the 2022 assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe.
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s father denies kicking Olympic champion and whipping daughter

Yahoo Daily News 31 Mar 2025
“I’m drying my neck with a towel,” Gjert told the court in Stagnes, Norway ... Gjert also denied claims made in court last week that he had kicked Jakob off a scooter when the Tokyo 1500m and Paris 5,000m Olympic champion was eight or nine.
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Japan: Family Federation, How an Assassin’s Dream Came True

Bitter Winter English 31 Mar 2025
Twisting and misinterpreting the law, the Tokyo District Court realized the purpose of Shinzo Abe’s assassin to destroy the Unification Church ... The Tokyo District Court rejected NNLASS’s request ... The Tokyo District Court insisted that..
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The Ultimate Guide to Tokyo’s Best Luxury Hotels

New York Observer 31 Mar 2025
Tokyo is bracing for an influx of 40 million visitors in 2025—a surge that eclipses even its own lofty past benchmarks ... a place forever anchored by history yet unabashedly courting the future ... The Best Hotels in Tokyo ... Aman Tokyo ... Aman Tokyo ... Janu Tokyo.
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Dissolution of the Unification Church in Japan: A Member Speaks

Bitter Winter English 31 Mar 2025
What do you think of the grounds for dissolution adopted by the government and the Tokyo District Court against FFWPU—namely, accusations of having disrupted the lives of Japanese people and harmed public welfare?.
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Iconic 'Mt. Gox, Where is Our Money?' Sign Is Up for Auction

CoinDesk 28 Mar 2025
Gox's Tokyo ... Burges had flown from London to Tokyo after Mt ... Seven years later, Karpeles was found innocent of embezzlement in a Tokyo court, while receiving a suspended sentence for manipulating data.
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Japan and the Unification Church: False Figures Supported the Dissolution

Bitter Winter English 28 Mar 2025
To a question on the dissolution order it obtained through the decision of the Tokyo District Court on March 25, 2025, MEXT answered claiming that it has evidence that there were 500 victims who made donations “after” 2009.
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Is Elon Musk's transgender daughter, Vivian Wilson, a US citizen after Donald Trump made 'two sexes' official?

The Times of India 28 Mar 2025
The 20-year-old, in a scathing thread, claimed her 'assigned sex at birth was a commodity that was bought and paid for.' She claimed that he had used sex-selective IVF to conceive her, and her coming ...
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EDITORIAL: Relief for victims of Unification Church remains a top priority

Asahi News 27 Mar 2025
The Tokyo District Court ordered on March 25 the dissolution of the former Unification Church, now officially known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, under the Religious Corporations Law.
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VOX POPULI: Disbanding of Unification Church does not erase LDP’s sins

Asahi News 27 Mar 2025
The church, more recently known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, had its legal status revoked by the Tokyo District Court on March 25. The court’s decision was based on the ...
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Yamagami meets with religious scholar as part of defense strategy

Asahi News 27 Mar 2025
The Tokyo District Court on March 25 issued an order for the dissolution of the church on grounds that it had “caused unprecedented and enormous damage through its solicitation of donations.”.
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