The man accused of killing former PM Shinzo Abe resented the South Korea-based sect, which had decades of cosy ties to ...

The Unification Church has faced hundreds of lawsuits in Japan from families who say that it manipulated members into ...

A Japanese court on Tuesday ordered the dissolution of the Unification Church's legal status, siding with a government ...

The Unification Church in Japan was ordered dissolved by a court after a government request spurred by the investigation into ...

A Tokyo court ordered the dissolution of a religious group whose fundraising methods and ties with ruling party politicians came under scrutiny following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shi ...

The assassination in 2022 of Shinzo Abe, the country’s former prime minister, led to an investigation into the group’s ...

The Unification Church is the first religious group in Japan to face a revocation order under civil law. Two other groups ...

A Japanese court ordered on March 25 that a religious sect be stripped of official recognition, the government said, in the ...

A Japanese court on Tuesday issued an order to dissolve the Unification Church, upholding the government request for a ...

The country's education ministry requested the dissolution of the religious group for the harm it is alleged to have caused ...