Panawave Laboratory

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The Panawave Laboratory is a Japanese belief group, given to end-of-the-world prophecy with a particular emphasis on deleterious electromagnetic radiation, (plus "scalar waves", global warming, the threat of post-Soviet communist terrorism, using white clothes and mirrors to ward off radiation, wrapping trees, traffic signs, rivers and crash barriers in white sheets, Nibiru, and a bearded seal named Tama-chan), which first attracted public notoriety when, following the charismatic dictates of their elderly female leader Yuku Chino, the group was noticed behaving strangely and blocking a road on the border of Hachiman and Yamato in Gifu prefecture at the end of April 2003.

1 Origins
2 Beliefs And Statements
3 Footnotes
4 External Links

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Origins

The group that would become known as the Panawave Laboratory began sometime in the nineteen-seventies, (according to Japan's National Police Agency in 1977)[1], in Fukui city, in Fukui prefecture. At the time when the roadblock incident began, the group had an official total of three thousand members, although some observers maintained that the actual number of members was much smaller[2].

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Beliefs And Statements

At their roadblock press conference, the group made several interesting statements. According to Mainichi Shimbun: ""A senior member suffers from terminal cancer after she came under a microwave attack from communist guerillas," a cult spokesman said. They added that they are wandering around Japan in search of a place without electric pylons, which emit electromagnetic waves and badly affect the woman's health...The group claims that electromagnetic waves are causing catastrophic environmental destruction, including a rise in temperature. The damages caused by the waves will ultimately result in the end of the earth, according to the cult. They also allege that scalar wave attacks are being carried out by communist terrorists who have dispersed around the world following the break-up of the Soviet Union. Panawave members always wear white garments saying that they protect them from the ill-effects of electromagnetic waves."[3] On May 5,2003, the day the group broke camp from the roadblock location (driving at a strangely slow twenty kilometers-per-hour pace), they issued a statement attributed to the supposedly terminal-with-cancer sixty-nine-year old Yuku Chino, stating in part "approach of the Nibiru star will be delayed nearly a week from Monday and those who do not listen to this message will face death", and adding further that the group was driven to carry out the feeding of Tama-chan[4].

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