A group of 46 people filed a lawsuit Friday against the Honohana Sanpogyo foot-reading cult, demanding the sect pay around 400 million yen in compensation for allegedly swindling money from them.
The plaintiffs claimed that the cult and its founder, Hogen Fukunaga, told them to pay between 1.3 million yen and 33 million yen each for training between 1987 and 1999.
According to the suit, the cult performed foot-reading diagnoses on group members who sought help for health and family problems, warning them that they would experience trouble if they did not take action.