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Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case: Executive Summary
A perverse machine fabricated “victims” and legal cases that later became the ground for seeking the Church’s dissolution.
Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 7. Liability of the Japanese State
Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 7. Liability of the Japanese State
Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 6. The Secret Letters
Confidential documents show that lawyers contacted parents who had never complained about their children’s involvement in the church and urged them to hire deprogrammers.
Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 5. Testimonies in Court
The leading anti-cult lawyers acknowledged during cross-examination that they referred parents to deprogrammers.
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Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 4. The Deprogrammers’ Manual
The late Pastor Kyoko Kawasaki published in 1990 a guide to deprogramming, expressly inciting the use of violence against the believers.
Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 3. The Pact with the United Church of Christ of Japan
Secular left-wing anti-cult lawyers cooperated with Protestant ministers who acted as deprogrammers.
Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 2. The Case of Dr. Koide
A medical doctor was kidnapped and confined to “de-convert” him from the Unification Church.
Japan: Lawyers, Deprogramming, and the Unification Church Dissolution Case. 1. Kidnapping Believers
Many civil cases cited in the dissolution decision were initiated by deprogrammed devotees compelled to sue the Church to prevent being confined again.