In many cases following a diagnosis, potential followers would be told things like their soles were so dirty they would suffer from cancer, or that they would commit suicide within a certain period of time. Then they would be persuaded to take part in five-day training sessions after being told that things would be all right after the training. The group is said to have usually received 1.25 million yen to 2.25 million yen per person in training fees. Participants were allowed to sleep a total of only about 10 hours and eat four or five meals in five days of training. The cult leaders are accused of having swindled 25 million yen from five people as fees for attendance at cult seminars and other cult-related charges.
Police suspect the totals of money taken in and people swindled are much higher.
The culture agency is considering the ban on the cult because it has become clear that its leaders used the Ho no Hana chain of command to conduct systematic fraud. The cult has claimed to be capable of diagnosing illnesses by examining the soles of people's feet. It was established around 1980 by Fukunaga and was registered as a religious organization by the Shizuoka prefectural government in 1987. The Cultural Affairs Agency became responsible for religious organizations through a 1996 amendment of the law governing them. The revised law stipulates that a religious group may be ordered to disband when it is found to have engaged in illegal acts that endangered public welfare, or in acts that departed drastically from the objectives of a religious organization.