In response to the Tokyo District Court's decision last month to impose administrative fines on the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for not properly responding to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's exercise of its right to question the former Unification Church regarding its request for a dissolution order, the church has On the 8th, we filed an immediate appeal to the Tokyo High Court.
On the 26th of last month, the Tokyo District Court, which was hearing the response of the former Unification Church in response to a notification from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, stated, ``It appears that there have been repeated illegal acts that infringed on the property rights and personal rights of many victims, The church's chairman, Tomihiro Tanaka, was ordered to pay a 100,000 yen fine for failing to properly respond to the exercise of the right to question, such as failing to make some reports.
Dissatisfied with this decision, the cult filed an immediate appeal to the Tokyo High Court on the 8th.
The cult claims, ``There is a serious error in the Tokyo District Court's decision that civil law torts also fall under the ``violation of laws and regulations'' requirement for a dissolution order.''
The first hearing regarding the right to question religious corporations will be moved to the Tokyo High Court.
It will be interesting to see whether this will affect the hearing of the request for an order to disband the religious group, which is currently proceeding separately in the district court.