Kyoto, July 16. leaders of the outlawed Omoto ("Foundation of "have been brought to trial on charges written words disrespectful to the Imperial it is anticipated, will pass judgment not of 1942. The principal defendant is Onisaif-styled "Grand Master? of the sect, who The defendants were rounded up a great drive carried out by the police in Tokyo and Kyoto prefect tures on December 8, 1935, after months of planning. Then followed nearly four years of investigation of the charges by the police and procurators, which included a minute examination of more than ten truckloads of documentary evidence.
The sect has never been recognized by Government as a legal religious organization. Nevertheless, it claimed more than 400,000 adherents at the time the authorities closed it down in 1935. It owned enormous properties and a large number of temples, all of which were confiscated.
The specie charges against the arrested men have never been revealed by the Japanese authorities, beyond the fact that they have uttered and written words disrespectful to the Imperial Household, Mrd 1 "World of Goli growing out of the publication of an
Spirit," a religious publication, the essence of which was held disrespectful to the Imperial Household. When Deguchi quickly re-old ways and once rallied thousands of followers teachings.
arrested during the 1935
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