What is the Unification Church, and how will Japan’s probe affect it? Japan has launched a probe of the Unification Church, potentially threatening the group’s position in a country it relies ...

New religious movements generally garner equal parts attention and skepticism; this is especially true for new and ...

Japan would deal a massive blow to the universal principle of religious freedom, could deeply damage its relationship with ...

Japan's government has asked a court to dissolve the country's branch of the Unification Church in the continuing fall-out from the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe last year.

Out-of-print publications in South Korea that are now appearing online show that Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, regarded himself as a kingmaker and even savior in Japanese ...

On July 8, 2022, in Nara, Japan, Shinzo Abe was shot twice with a homemade shotgun by Tetsuya Yamagami. Despite Abe’s towering status in Japanese politics — a former prime minister, and Japan’s ...

Japanese politicians say they're cutting ties with the controversial former Unification Church after its influence came to light with the July murder of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo.

The July 2022 shooting of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzō by a man who accused the Unification Church of extorting ... a religious group espousing an anti-Japanese doctrine, managed to cultivate ...

Japan's education and culture ministry has asked the Tokyo District Court to issue an order to dissolve the religious group formerly known as the Unification Church. NHK spoke with one former ...

“Moon was the cement that kept the Unification Church together but now his many children will split the empire”. “Will the Japanese followers continue to give money generously to the Church ...