The ruling is the latest development in a decades-long dispute between the Church and disenfranchised former members — which became widely known in Japan following the assassination of former prime ...

Unification Church followers hold signs during a protest against negative Japanese media coverage of their religion following the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, in downtown ...

upholding a government request for a revocation spurred by the investigation into the 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The Tokyo District Court’s revocation of the church ...

That right is freedom of religion, and its latest battleground is Japan ... When the disgruntled son of a member of the UC assassinated Japan’s former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, in 2022, over his ...

Shinto, the indigenous religion, remained central to Japanese culture even ... The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July 2021 further fueled controversy surrounding cults in Japan.

Faith leaders, academics, and rights activists have expressed concern over legislation and restrictions in Japan against religious entities following former prime minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination .

The assassination of Shinzo Abe by the son of a Unification Church devotee led Japan to a reckoning about the issue of child abuse and neglect linked to parents' religious affiliations. In the wake of ...

The church's fortunes tumbled last year when the embittered son of a parishioner assassinated Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in broad daylight with a homemade gun as the politician gave a campaign ...

TOKYO – The head of a fringe religious group cited as a motivation in the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe offered ... citing freedom of religion and the rule of ...