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Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo/Hogen Fukunaga in the News

2002

  • July 8, 2002 Cult Shock, Time Magazine Asia (...Ho No Hana Sanpogyo...a group whose leader claims that he doesn't need to eat, bathe or sleep because of his superhuman powers. He is now serving a 15-year prison sentence for murdering a follower and keeping the mummified corpse in a hotel room...)

2001

  • December 7, 2001 Former foot-cult deputy gets five years for fraud, The Japan Times (A former deputy leader of the Honohana Sampogyo foot-reading cult was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for defrauding 31 people between 1994 and 1997...)
  • December 6, 2001 Foot cult fraudster booted behind bars, Mainichi Daily News (...Hono-Hana-Sanpogyo foot-reading religious cult was Thursday sentenced to five years in jail for fraud...)
  • October 18, 2001 6 years jail demanded for foot-cult exec, Mainichi Daily News (Ho-no-Hana Sanpogyo in the news.)
  • September 10, 2001 Foot-reading cultist gets kicked into jail, Mainichi Daily News (...Hiraga was convicted of conspiring with cult founder Hogen Fukunaga to play on housewives fears and extort money from them. After reading the soles of their feet, senior cultists would warn that they would develop cancer and die -- unless they paid hefty consultation fees and attended cult-organized training sessions...)
  • June 27, 2001 Nagoya court orders foot-cult to foot compensation, Mainichi Daily News (News on Ho-no-Hana Sanpogyo and Hogen Fukunaga.) (Photo included.)
  • February 21, 2001 Foot cult to pay defrauded believers, The Japan Times

2000