#97 - The Jehova's Witnesses

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Today, the JWs have as many as 250,000 adherents in Japan, despite having an extremely rocky start in the country in the early 1930s. In recent years, the JWs have experienced controversy in the media and courts once again, this time for serious allegations of abuse of its own members and children.

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Sources:

• Japan Times: Children of Jehovah’s Witnesses submit report detailing sexual abuse
• Investigator Magazine: JUNZO AKASHI – A Watchtower Victim
• Asahi Shimbun: 159 report being sexually abused as Jehovah’s Witnesses
• Mainichi Shimbun: 3rd-gen Jehovah's Witness in Japan opens up about dark past before opposition parties
• Japan Times: Japan lawyers form group to support children of Jehovah's Witnesses followers
• Metropolis: The Door Knockers - Jehovah’s Witnesses in Japan
• Asahi Shimbun: Ex-Jehovah’s Witness opens up about trauma brought by faith
• JWLeaks.org: Jehovah’s Witnesses face ‘worrying development’ on the treatment of children in Japan
• Yomiuri Shimbun: Japan Lawyers to Report on Religion-Based Refusal of Blood Transfusions for Kids
• EWTN Global Catholic Television: Charles Taze Russell
• YouTube: Senator Mizuho Uehara addressing Parliament over the issue of the JWs and their alleged abuse of children
• Twitter: Kotaro Tanaka’s account
• Wikipedia: History of Jehovah's Witnesses