On 8 July 2022 Shinzo Abe, former prime minister of Japan and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was shot at an election rally. Abe’s killer, Tetsuya Yamagami, told investigators that his family had been ruined by the huge…[Continue Reading...]
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese court said Thursday that it will hand down the ruling in January on the man indicted over the 2022 fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The Nara District Court has released the trial…[Continue Reading...]
Lawyers helping victims of the Unification Church’s aggressive donation solicitation practices in Japan said on Thursday that an arbitration had been concluded, ordering the church to pay a total of more than 50 million yen (US$340,000) in damages to three…[Continue Reading...]
Tokyo, Oct. 2 (Jiji Press)--The first settlements have been reached in petitions filed by former followers of the Unification Church demanding refunds of donations, lawyers for the ex-followers said Thursday. The settlements between the controversial religious group, formally called the…[Continue Reading...]
The defense team of Tetsuya Yamagami, who is accused of murdering former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is expected to contend that the crime stemmed from “religious abuse” in his family and was not an act of political terrorism, sources said.…[Continue Reading...]
Japanese victims of the Unification Church's donation program have called for fundamental solutions regarding the controversial religious group after its leader was arrested in South Korea on Tuesday in a bribery case involving the previous South Korean president's wife. The…[Continue Reading...]
The Public Security Examination Commission has decided to extend restrictions on the activities of Aleph, a successor group of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, for another six months. The decision, made Wednesday, marks the sixth time the recurrence prevention…[Continue Reading...]
The Public Security Examination Commission on Wednesday handed down a sixth regulatory action against Aleph, the primary successor organization of the Aum Supreme Truth cult, based on the Law on the Control of Organizations Which Committed Indiscriminate Mass Murder. The…[Continue Reading...]
OSAKA (TR) – Earlier this year, law enforcement arrested female fortuneteller Yoshie Hamada, 63, who calls herself “the Creator,” for allegedly instigating two of her male followers to commit suicide by drowning in Wakayama Prefecture five years ago. The trial…[Continue Reading...]
Japanese authorities have warned that the son of a cult leader behind the deadly sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo's subway network in 1995 is now the leader of a successor group. The cult, Aum Shinrikyo was disbanded and its…[Continue Reading...]
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