Dissolution order for Unification Church

TOKYO, Japan, March 4 Kyodo - Nobuya Fukumoto, lawyer for the Unification Church, meets the press in front of the Tokyo High Court in the Japanese capital on March 4, 2026, after the court upheld a dissolution order for the religious corporation as requested by the central government on the grounds that it unlawfully solicited financially ruinous donations from its members. (Kyodo)

Dissolution order for Unification Church

Dissolution order for Unification Church

A police officer stands guard in front of the building housing the headquarters of the Unification Church in Tokyo on March 4, 2026. The Tokyo High Court the same day upheld a dissolution order for the religious corporation as requested by the central government on the grounds that it unlawfully solicited financially ruinous donations from its members.

Dissolution order for Unification Church

Dissolution order for Unification Church

Nobuya Fukumoto, lawyer for the Unification Church, meets the press in front of the Tokyo High Court in the Japanese capital on March 4, 2026, after the court upheld a dissolution order for the religious corporation as requested by the central government on the grounds that it unlawfully solicited financially ruinous donations from its members.

Dissolution order for Unification Church

Dissolution order for Unification Church

Nobuya Fukumoto, lawyer for the Unification Church, meets the press in front of the Tokyo High Court in the Japanese capital on March 4, 2026, after the court upheld a dissolution order for the religious corporation as requested by the central government on the grounds that it unlawfully solicited financially ruinous donations from its members.

Dissolution order for Unification Church

Dissolution order for Unification Church

Nobuya Fukumoto, lawyer for the Unification Church, meets the press in front of the Tokyo High Court in the Japanese capital on March 4, 2026, after the court upheld a dissolution order for the religious corporation as requested by the central government on the grounds that it unlawfully solicited financially ruinous donations from its members.

Dissolution order for Unification Church

Dissolution order for Unification Church

Nobuya Fukumoto, lawyer for the Unification Church, meets the press in front of the Tokyo High Court in the Japanese capital on March 4, 2026, after the court upheld a dissolution order for the religious corporation as requested by the central government on the grounds that it unlawfully solicited financially ruinous donations from its members.

Japan seeks dissolution of Unification Church

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 12 Kyodo - Japan's education and culture minister Masahito Moriyama attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 12, 2023, after revealing his ministry's decision to seek to strip the scandal-hit Unification Church of religious corporation status. (Kyodo)

TUNISIA-TUNIS-SUPERIOR COUNCIL OF JUDICIARY-DISSOLUTION

TUNISIA-TUNIS-SUPERIOR COUNCIL OF JUDICIARY-DISSOLUTION

(220214) -- TUNIS, Feb. 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Police officers maintain order during a demonstration against the dissolution of the Superior Council of the Judiciary in Tunis, Tunisia, Feb. 13, 2022. Tunisia's President Kais Saied signed on Feb. 13 a presidential decree to form a temporary Superior Council of the Judiciary to replace the dissolved one. (Photo by Adel Ezzine/Xinhua)