The practical shape of Aleph is roughly thirty facilities across fifteen prefectures, holding a total membership the state puts at about 1,600. These are rented halls in ordinary buildings, and their addresses are known because the law requires them to be reported. Local residents have organised against them repeatedly, and several municipalities have refused to register Aleph members as residents — a practice Japanese courts have found unlawful. The tension is permanent and unresolved: the members are citizens with rights, and the neighbours remember 1995.