The Tokyo District Court decided to order the dissolution of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (Family Federation, formerly Unification Church) on March 25, based on the request by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). In response to the decision, Patricia Duval, an international human rights lawyer from France, wrote a commentary as follows titled, “When the Country of the Rising Sun Becomes the Sunset for Civil Liberties.”