Tokyo High Court orders ex-Unification Church to pay fine
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The Tokyo High Court has upheld a lower court decision to order a religious group widely known as the Unification Church to pay a fine for failing to properly respond to government inquiries.
The education and culture ministry had exercised its legal authority to question the group seven times before requesting a court order to revoke the group’s status as a religious corporation in October 2023.
The ministry says it questioned the group on more than 500 points, but the group refused to answer over 100 of them. It asked the Tokyo District Court to impose an administrative penalty on the group.
In March, the court ordered the group’s leader, Tanaka Tomihiro, to pay a fine of 100,000 yen, or about 690 dollars.
The group immediately appealed the decision.
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