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Wednesday November 14, 2007

Kigenkai:

Killing for the cult

The ritual murder of an elderly sushi-shop owner by a gang of women has exposed the secrets of a bizarre Japanese cult, and shone a disturbing light on the nation’s weakness for extreme religions.
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Wednesday November 7, 2007

Kigenkai:

15 members of Kigenkai religious group indicted for death of member

Senior member Yasuko Kubota has denied ordering the beating of Motoko Okuno.
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Saturday October 27, 2007

Kigenkai:

Police arrest 6 more women in sect death

Sushi restaurant owner Motoko Okuno, 63, died last month after a mass beating at the Kigenkai sect’s headquarters in Komoro city, Nagano prefecture (state), local police official Toshio Gomyo said.
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Kigenkai:

7 more Kigenkai cultists face arrest for beating woman to death

It will bring the number of those arrested for fatally assaulting 63-year-old Motoko Okuno to 30, including two members of the victim’s family.
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Friday October 26, 2007

Kigenkai:

Kooky cultists’ condom controversy explodes into deadly discipline

Okuno’s beating apparently stemmed from one of the cult’s regular “reflection gatherings,” where cultists started criticizing Michiko Mori and Yuji Ike over their lax lifestyle.
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Wednesday October 17, 2007

Kigenkai:

Senior sect member seen as key player in woman’s death

Kubota is a relative of the founder of the Shinto-linked religious organization, headquartered in Komoro, Nagano Prefecture.
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Kigenkai:

Suspects fear reprisals, cover for cultists in woman’s gang-bashing death

Four related members of holy water cult Kigenkai who were arrested in connection with the fatal gang bashing of a sushi restaurant owner fear reprisals and may be covering up the involvement of other cultists in the elderly woman’s death, police said Tuesday.
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Monday October 15, 2007

Kigenkai:

Police raid Japanese cult’s headquarters after woman is beaten to death

The headquarters of an obscure Japanese cult, whose devotees toss dead sardines and fruit into local rivers as a purification ritual, was raided today after one of its followers was beaten to death.
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Kigenkai:

Japan: Religious group raided over suspicious death of 63-year-old follower

Investigators suspect that Okuno was beaten by her 35-year-old husband, her 37-year-old daughter and several other members of the religious group.
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Kigenkai:

Japanese sect raided by 400 police officers

Hundreds of police raided a mostly female sect in central Japan today on suspicion that a member was beaten to death for failing to carry out her religious rites.
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Kigenkai:

Police raid religious group Kigenkai over fatal assault of member

Police suspect Kigenkai’s involvement in the death of the woman, Motoko Okuno, 63, which has led to the arrests of her four relatives also belonging to the group, they said.
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