Organization
PL's spiritual leader, the Patriarch, is called Oshieoya-sama, (English: Father of the Teachings). The third and current Patriarch of the church is Takahito Miki. Miki is also the vice president of Shinshuren, the Federation of New Religious Organizations of Japan.
The second Patriarch Tokuchika Miki three times visited the Holy See, and met two Popes to improve inter-religious cooperation.
PL was highly nationalist in the prewar years, when it was known as Hito-no-Michi. Its first founder printed 180,000 images of himself on nickel, to be used as bullets in the event of war. In September 1936 allegations of the immoral private life of the founder were made public by Japanese police authorities and attendance plummeted.
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