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Saturday May 14, 2005
Panawave:
Guru’s streaker past exposed as cult wins defamation case against tabloid mag
Panawave, a cult whose members dress entirely in white and deck out any areas they travel in white sheets, has won a Tokyo District Court battle against weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun for defamation.
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Wednesday February 11, 2004
Panawave:
Pana Wave probed over car checkups
Police on Monday arrested an employee of a car maintenance firm in Fukui and questioned its president on suspicion it falsified safety inspections of vehicles belonging to the Pana Wave Laboratory. The police also searched the headquarters of the group in the city.
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Saturday December 27, 2003
Panawave:
5 doomsday group members fined, released in death of member
FUKUI, Japan, Dec. 27 (Kyodo) -- Five members of the Pana Wave Laboratory cult-like doomsday group were released Friday after paying 200,000 yen each in fines that a summary court ordered in connection with their assault of a member, who later died, in August in the city of Fukui, Fukui Prefecture.
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Wednesday December 24, 2003
Panawave:
Japan’s Top Stories of 2003 — No. 9: Panawave sparks paranoia
Paranoia gripped Japanese residents in April when the bizarre Panawave Laboratory group appeared and took over a stretch of road in Gifu Prefecture, covering up crash barriers and roadside trees with huge white cloths.
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Monday December 8, 2003
Panawave:
Police: Pana Wave wrote manual on how to beat members
The Pana Wave Laboratory group in Fukui, five of whose members were arrested Friday on suspicion of beating an associate professor of a Fukuoka university who died in the group's facility in August, compiled a manual giving instructions on how to administer punishment beatings to members, police said Friday.
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Saturday December 6, 2003
Panawave:
Five Pana Wave members held over man’s death
FUKUI (Kyodo) Five members of Pana Wave Laboratory, a sect whose members dress in white, were arrested Friday in connection with the August death of a man at their compound in the city of Fukui, police said.
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Friday December 5, 2003
Panawave:
Cultists nabbed for beating ‘electromagnetic waves’ out of academic
FUKUI -- Five members of the Panawave cult were arrested Friday for beating an academic with bamboo sticks to remove electromagnetic waves, police said.
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Panawave:
5 members of Pana Wave cult arrested over man’s death
FUKUI — Five members of cult-like group Pana Wave Laboratory were arrested Friday over the death of a man in August at the group's facilities in the city of Fukui, central Japan, police said.
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Saturday September 13, 2003
Panawave:
Pana Wave member dies after being found in creek
FUKUI (Kyodo) A member of the Pana Wave Laboratory sect died at a hospital Friday, having been found unconscious in a creek here earlier in the morning, firefighters said.
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Friday September 12, 2003
Panawave:
Pana Wave member dies after submersion in creek
FUKUI — A member of the Pana Wave Laboratory cult-like group died Friday in a hospital to which he was taken after being found unconscious in a creek in the city of Fukui earlier in the morning, firefighters said.
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Monday September 1, 2003
Panawave:
Pana Wave removes riverside cloth
FUKUI (Kyodo) Pana Wave Laboratory on Sunday removed white cloth from a Fukui riverside that the group has occupied for several months.
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Sunday August 31, 2003
Panawave:
White cult unwraps river bank under gov’t threat of force
FUKUI -- The all-white Panawave cult removed white fabric that they had used to cover a long-stretch of a river embankment near their Fukui headquarters to protect themselves from "electromagnetic wave attacks," authorities confirmed Sunday.
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Tuesday August 12, 2003
Panawave:
Pana Wave facing tax probe after police raids
Daily Yomiuri (Japan), Aug. 12, 2003
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Sunday August 10, 2003
Panawave:
Police raid Pana Wave HQ over member’s death
Japan Today, Aug. 10, 2003
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Panawave:
Japanese Police Raid Cult Headquarters
Associated Press, Aug. 10, 2003
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Saturday August 9, 2003
Panawave:
Bruised academic fatally collapses at white cult HQ
Mainichi Daily News (Japan), Aug. 9, 2003
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Panawave:
Police probe man’s death at Japanese cult laboratory
Kyodo (Japan), Aug. 8, 2003
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Friday August 8, 2003
Panawave:
Police looking into death at Pana Wave facility in Fukui
Kyodo News (Japan), Aug. 8, 2003
» Full Story

Friday June 27, 2003
Panawave:
Cult earns
The group spent millions on bird feed and Tama-chan.
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Thursday June 26, 2003
Panawave:
Prosecutors get papers on three Pana Wave members
The Japan Times, June 26, 2003
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Tuesday May 20, 2003
Panawave:
TV coverage forced police to confront cult, alleviate concern
Asahi News (Japan), May 20, 2003
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Sunday May 18, 2003
Panawave:
The long road from a loner to a prophetess
Tokyo Confidential
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Friday May 16, 2003
Panawave:
Probing Pana Wave’s nature
The Japan Times, May 17, 2003 (Editorial)
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Panawave:
White cult awaits ‘postponed’ doomsday at Fukui HQ
Mainichi Daily News (Japan), May 16, 2003
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Panawave:
End of the world? Cult gets date wrong
The Straits Times (Singapore), May 16, 2003
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