Japan: Deprogrammed Believers Sent to Infiltrate
... Starting in 1998, new believers – those who had only just joined – began being abducted and confined in rapid succession. Over a period of less than two years, at least 18 individuals were…
Decades-Old Civil Harm Claims and Fabrications
... The court relied only on deprogrammed apostates for facts dating back from 20 to 40 years before. In violation of international law, the court found what they according to social norms considered to be…
Lone-Wolf Theory Disputed in Abe Assassination
... Yamagami was arrested and indicted after he attacked and killed Abe with a homemade gun during a campaign speech on July 8, 2022. Ahead of the citizen jury trial, there have been seven rounds…
Doctor’s Ordeal of Abduction and Faith-Breaking
... The pastors of the Christian churches were generally simple and honest, and the atmosphere in the churches was peaceful. But the pastors who engaged in “forced rescue” of believers had become extremely, extremely radical…
Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 7.
... Even if this “deprogramming” practice seemingly ended thereafter, the court cases that were built on it are now used to achieve the dissolution of the Church and bring about its destruction per the original…
Japan: 12 Years in Captivity – Now Fighting Back
... Goto, who serves as the representative of the National Association of Victims of Abduction, Confinement, and Forced Religious De-Conversion, reflected on his ordeal, saying, “It was a despicable act that deprived me of all…
Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 6. The Secret Letters
... the anti-cult movement or the deprogrammers themselves communicated the names of believers’ parents, who had never complained of anything, to NNLSS lawyers. The latter compiled lists of believers’ names through the “loyalty test”—a step…
Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 5. Testimonies in Court
... Therefore, the leading figure of NNLSS, lawyer Yamaguchi, admitted in Court that the Network had been referring parents of Unification Church believers for years to pastors specialized in the “rescue” from the Unification Church.
Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 4. The Deprogrammers’ Manual
... The lawyers of the victimized believers filed the parts of the Guide containing recommendations to parents on “rescue.” In response, the NNLSS lawyers filed the entire book to highlight the remaining parts where the…
Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 3. The Pact with the United Church of Christ of Japan
... The “youth return cases” designates a series of court cases brought by the Lawyers’ Network to destroy the Church (per their own statement): they sought compensation for young adults who had joined the Unification…