Testimonies Global

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

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.

The leading anti-cult lawyers acknowledged during cross-examination that they referred parents to deprogrammers.

The late Pastor Kyoko Kawasaki published in 1990 a guide to deprogramming, expressly inciting the use of violence against the believers.

Secular left-wing anti-cult lawyers cooperated with Protestant ministers who acted as deprogrammers.

A medical doctor was kidnapped and confined to “de-convert” him from the Unification Church. 

Many civil cases cited in the dissolution decision were initiated by deprogrammed devotees compelled to sue the Church to prevent being confined again.