With the enactment of the Religious Organizations Act, general religious groups became legal entities for the first time and Christianity also gained legal status for the first time, but it was a very restrictive and controlling law.
宗教団体法の制定によって、一般の宗教団体は初めて法人となり、キリスト教も初めて法的地位を得たが、監督・統制色が強い法律であった。