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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

TOKYO, Japan, March 26 Kyodo - Tomihiro Tanaka, head of the Unification Church's Japan branch, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2025, after the Tokyo District Court ordered the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

TOKYO, Japan, March 26 Kyodo - Video taken on March 25, 2025, shows a building housing the Unification Church in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. The Tokyo District Court ordered the same day the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages. (Kyodo)

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Tomihiro Tanaka (R), head of the Unification Church's Japan branch, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2025, after the Tokyo District Court ordered the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Tomihiro Tanaka, head of the Unification Church's Japan branch, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2025, after the Tokyo District Court ordered the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Tomihiro Tanaka, head of the Unification Church's Japan branch, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2025, after the Tokyo District Court ordered the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Photo taken on March 25, 2025, shows a building housing the Unification Church in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. The Tokyo District Court ordered the same day the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Tomihiro Tanaka, head of the Unification Church's Japan branch, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2025, after the Tokyo District Court ordered the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Photo taken on March 25, 2025, shows a building housing the Unification Church in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. The Tokyo District Court ordered the same day the church's dissolution, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Lawyer Nobuya Fukumoto (front) is surrounded by journalists in front of the Tokyo District Court in the Japanese capital on March 25, 2025, after the court ordered that his client, the Unification Church, be dissolved, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Lawyer Nobuya Fukumoto (front) is surrounded by journalists in front of the Tokyo District Court in the Japanese capital on March 25, 2025, after the court ordered that his client, the Unification Church, be dissolved, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Lawyer Nobuya Fukumoto (front) is surrounded by journalists in front of the Tokyo District Court in the Japanese capital on March 25, 2025, after the court ordered that his client, the Unification Church, be dissolved, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Journalists gather around the Tokyo District Court in the Japanese capital on March 25, 2025. The court ordered the same day that the Unification Church be dissolved, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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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)

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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) ==Kyodo

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Japan seeks dissolution of Unification Church

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press at his office in Tokyo on Oct. 12, 2023, after the education and culture ministry revealed its decision to seek to strip the scandal-hit Unification Church of religious corporation status.

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Japan seeks dissolution of Unification Church

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press at his office in Tokyo on Oct. 12, 2023, after the education and culture ministry revealed its decision to seek to strip the scandal-hit Unification Church of religious corporation status.

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Japan seeks dissolution of Unification Church

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.

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Japan seeks dissolution of Unification Church

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.

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Japan seeks dissolution of Unification Church

Japan's education and culture minister Masahito Moriyama speaks during a meeting with an advisory panel on religious corporations in Tokyo on Oct. 12, 2023, revealing his ministry's decision to seek to strip the scandal-hit Unification Church of religious corporation status.

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Japan seeks dissolution of Unification Church

Japan's education and culture minister Masahito Moriyama (C, facing camera) speaks during a meeting with an advisory panel on religious corporations in Tokyo on Oct. 12, 2023, revealing his ministry's decision to seek to strip the scandal-hit Unification Church of religious corporation status.

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Aso sees problem with current system of honoring Japan's war dead

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Taro Aso speaks in a presentation at the Kyodo News head office in Tokyo on May 16. He said he sees problems in the current method of honoring Japan's war dead at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, suggesting revising the system of having a single religious corporation be in charge of honoring the spirits of the war dead.

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Aso sees problem with current system of honoring Japan's war dea

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Taro Aso speaks in a presentation at the Kyodo News head office in Tokyo on May 16. He said he sees problems in the current method of honoring Japan's war dead at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, suggesting revising the system of having a single religious corporation be in charge of honoring the spirits of the war dead. (Kyodo)

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Priest arrested on suspicion of forgery

TOKYO, Japan - Mudo Oda, 50, a resident priest of a Buddhist temple, speaks at a news conference in a photo taken at a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 26, 2002. Oda, whose real name is Reisuke Oda, was arrested Sept. 11 on suspicion of forging private documents to assume the presidency of a religious corporation. (Kyodo)