By Peter Zoehrer

On March 4, 2026, the Tokyo High Court, under Presiding Judge Motoko Miki, upheld the dissolution of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (formerly the Unification Church) as a religious corporation. Liquidation proceedings began immediately. This marks Japan’s first-ever dissolution of a religious group based primarily on civil tort claims and alleged violations of vague “public welfare” standards—without a single criminal conviction.

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