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The court decision is the culmination of almost forty years of harassment of the religious movement by politically motivated and greedy lawyers.

The dissolution decision is based on the accusation of soliciting excessive donations. But their religious nature is ignored.

In 2009, the church issued a “Compliance Declaration” that reduced the claims against it almost to zero at the time of the Abe assassination.

Civil cases do not require the same strict standards of fact-finding of criminal cases. They should not be used as grounds for dissolution.

Unconvincingly, the court stated that the verdict did not violate freedom of religion or belief. It also applied the new law on donations retroactively.

The decision ignored three recommendations from the United Nations, which asked Japan not to limit rights based on “public welfare.”

The Japanese government is claiming there were 500 victims of coerced donations after 2009. This figure is false.