"Dear Prime Minister Kishida": Why the Unification Church Should Not Be Dissolved
A leading Japanese lawyer explains why, notwithstanding the media slander, he decided to represent the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (formerly Unification Church) against the government’s threat to dissolve it. He then discusses the grounds for dissolving a religious corporation...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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| In: |
The journal of CESNUR
Year: 2023, Volume: 7, Issue: 6, Pages: 70-92 |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | A leading Japanese lawyer explains why, notwithstanding the media slander, he decided to represent the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (formerly Unification Church) against the government’s threat to dissolve it. He then discusses the grounds for dissolving a religious corporation under Japan’s Religious Corporation Act. He concludes that the Family Federation does not meet this act’s criteria for dissolution and asks the question whether the request for dissolution is not based on political expediency rather than on solid legal grounds. |
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| ISSN: | 2532-2990 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of CESNUR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2023.7.6.6 |
