TOKYO (Reuters) -When Sun Myung Moon, the Korean founder of the Unification Church, needed money for its extensive spiritual and business ventures he would look to Japan, according to some former ...

The Japanese government voted to dissolve the country's branch of the Unification Church in October, signaling a major setback for the controversial religious movement that has faced accusations of ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Unification Church in Japan was ordered dissolved by a court Tuesday after a government request spurred by the investigation into the 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister ...

TOKYO — A controversial South Korean church with powerful political connections faces dissolution in Japan after a Tokyo court ordered a revokation of its legal status after the government accused it ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... On January 21, 2026, Yamagami Tetsuya, accused of murdering former prime minister Abe Shinzo on the streets of Nara in July, 2022, was ...

Since the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, public shock has morphed into outrage, as the deeply embedded ties between the controversial Unification Church and Japan’s ruling Liberal ...

Rainfall forecast over the next seven days. TOKYO – The Unification Church in Japan was ordered dissolved by a court Tuesday after a government request spurred by the investigation into the 2022 ...