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Japan Society for Cult Prevention and Recovery

What is The Japan Society for Cult Prevention and Recovery :JSCPR ?

JSCPR (JSCPR was changed) was established in Nov. 1995. When Japanese Police investigated AUM Shinrikyo forcibly in March 1995, we first realized necessity to study their abnormal behaviors of the Guru Shoko Asahara and incomprehensive lives of their believers. Their strange behaviors were explained with the general concept 'mind control'. Also, we were very surprised that many 'elites' were included in the illegal performers for actualizing the Guru's idea.

There are groups of which members conceal their true purpose of recruiting targets, of which members make the target's mind become unstable, discard common sense and take any action in accordance with only the logic of the group. We call this kind of the groups destructive cult．

We must be against their such activities by cooperating with many kinds of people such as academic researchers ,counselors, journalists, jurist, churchman, cult member's families and cult former members.

In the case of AUM, parents, who worried to their children who had become a member, organized 'the parents group'. The group had been supported by some professional advisers such as exit counselors before JSCPR establishment. When the series of AUM crime appeared , they developed into the organization JSCPR for the purpose of their information exchange in November, 1995.

The purpose of this research council is to study cult activities, to exchange information of cult, to pursue more excellent techniques for exit counseling. As the result of their efforts, we do hope the anti-social behaviors will be eliminated in our society.

Office

Address: The Japan Society for Cult Prevention and Recovery
Taro Takimoto at Yamato Law office

Park road Yamato-building 2F 2-1-15
Chuoh, Yamato, Kanagawa　242-0021
Fax：　046-263-0375
Email： takitaro@yha.att.ne.jp

Board members

Chairman

Taido Kusuyama
Exit counselor, Monk, high school teacher

Directors

Sakurai　Yoshihide
Sociologist，Associate　Professor of Hokkaido University

Syouichi Suzuki
Exit counselor, Tenrikyo

Taro Takimoto (administration officer)
Exit counselor, Lawyer,

Itaru Takesako

Hideko Nagaoka

Kimiaki Nishida Ph. D.
Social psychologist, Associate Professor of University of Shizuoka

Eishun Nukina

Asako Ban

Masayuki Hiraoka, Rev.
Exit counselor, Pastor, High school teacher

Manabu Hirano
Clinical psychologist, Associate Professor of Keio University

Takashi Yamaguchi
Lawyer

Akira Yotsutsuji

Adviser

Sadao Asami, Ph. D.
Theorist, Former Professor of Tohoku gakuin University

Auditor

Tamiko Jinbo

Activity

Introduction of The JSCPR Jun.27.2008
Statement September 15, 2006
The Ten Years of the Aum Trial
The A memorandum　(an ex-follower in AUM, who was there as a monk for seven years, in his twenties) June 25th, 1997