former congregation of 380, the local temple of the Hito-no-michi religious cult, banned in Japan on April 28, hag voluntarily closed its doors.
"The Reverend" Denshiro Takano, the "abbot" of the local temple, formed the Japanese Consular Police on Monday that he had stopped services and removed the shingle from the entrance to the "shrine", sit a private house on Haining Road.
The Consular Police authorities while not emulating the drastic acton taken by the Tokyo Home Omce, ordered Mr. Takano and his flock 10 Jgurrender immediately all sect pub-cations in their possession.
Soon after its. establishment, in 1035, the local temple had about 350 Jdevétecs. The successive blows dealt the cult by the police in Japan have, however, reduced this number to a small fraction of the former number.
Tokuichi Miki, the founder and the rst chief abbot of the pseudo-religion, and his son Tokuchika, his successor, are now in jail charged with offences against morality and lose majesta, "The 60-year old founder of the cult, now popularly described as Japan's "Rasputin", was accused of violating young girls, who came to him for spiritual guidance and advice,
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