A donation to establish a Japanese cultural center at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from a controversial religious sect has opened up a Pandora's box of accusations and counter-accusations, pitting members of the University's Department of East Asian Studies against each other while the Hebrew University remains strangely mute.

Kathmandu, July 25: A controversial four-decade-old Japanese cult, whose first disciples were bar girls, has now found a different kind of following in Nepal - cancer patients.

A doomsday millennium cult, members of which have been linked by police to the terrorists who killed 12 people in a sarin gas attack in Japan, has established a London base and recruited scores of members in Britain.

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