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{{Infobox organization<br />
| native_name = パナウェーブ研究所<br />
| native_name_lang = ja<br />
| logo = Pana-Wave Laboratory Symbol.jpg<br />
| location_country = Japan<br />
| parent_organization = [[Chino-Shoho]]<br />
| website = {{URL|http://www.pana-wave.com/}}<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Pana-Wave Laboratory''' ({{langx|ja|パナウェーブ研究所}}) is a division of the [[:ja:千乃正法|Chino-Shoho]] group, which is a [[Japanese new religions|Japanese new religious group]].<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
Pana-Wave is a division of a religious group called [[Chino-Shoho]] based in [[Shibuya, Tokyo|Shibuya]], [[Tokyo]], founded by a woman called Yuko Chino in 1977 and combining elements of Christianity, Buddhism and New Age doctrines.{{sfn|Murguia|2011|pp=99–100}} Estimates of membership range from several hundred to 1,200.<ref>''[[Metropolis (free magazine)|Metropolis]]'', "Fortean Japan", 27 June 2008, p. 12.</ref> It has been classified as a contactee or [[UFO religion]].{{sfn|Tumminia|2007|pp=310–311}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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=== Works cited ===<br />
* {{Cite book |title=Alien Worlds: Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact |publisher=[[Syracuse University Press]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-8156-0858-5 |editor-last=Tumminia |editor-first=Diana G. |series=Religion and Politics |language=en}}<br />
* {{Cite book |last=Murguia |first=Salvador Jimenez |chapter=When Prophets Fail to Fail: A Case Study of Yuko Chino, Chino Shoho, and the Pana-Wave Laboratory |title=How Prophecy Lives |pages=99–113 |editor-last=Tumminia |editor-first=Diana |publisher=BRILL |doi=10.1163/9789004222687_007 |isbn=978-90-04-22268-7 |editor2-last=Swatos |editor2-first=William H.|year=2011}}<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{Cite news |date=2003-05-17 |title=Doomsday cult misses the call |url=https://www.theage.com.au/world/doomsday-cult-misses-the-call-20030517-gdvpui.html |work=[[The Age]] |location=Melbourne |language=en-AU |issn=0312-6307}}<br />
* {{Cite news |last=French |first=Howard W. |date=2003-05-14 |title=Japanese Cult Vows to Save a Seal and the World |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/14/world/japanese-cult-vows-to-save-a-seal-and-the-world.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}<br />
* {{cite book | last1=Staemmler | first1=Birgit | last2=Dehn | first2=Ulrich M. | title=Establishing the Revolutionary: An Introduction to New Religions in Japan | publisher=LIT Verlag | publication-place=Münster | date=2011 | isbn=978-3-643-90152-1 | url=https://lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-90152-1/}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Official website|http://www.pana-wave.com/}}<br />
* [http://panawave.easter.ne.jp/pw-1/syasin030512.htm Photo collection]<br />
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