Tokyo, Feb. 4 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo High Court will decide on March 4 whether to back a lower court's order for the Unification Church to disband itself, informed sources said Wednesday. If the high court upholds the dissolution order, it will…[Continue Reading...]
On January 21, Yamagami Tetsuya was sentenced to life imprisonment for the July 2022 murder of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzō. Courts typically exercise judicial discretion in sentencing, departing from what prosecutors demand, but in an unusual move, the Nara…[Continue Reading...]
A DOOMSDAY cult behind a deadly chemical attack is recruiting a new generation of followers – with fears of “indiscriminate mass murder”. Aum Shinrikyo released nerve gas on the Tokyo subway in 1995 – in the country’s most catastrophic attack…[Continue Reading...]
Tetsuya Yamagami was angry. His father had died of suicide when he was just four years old. His older brother had died the same way in 2015, unable to afford medical treatment for lymphoma. And his mother, a devout member…[Continue Reading...]
A queue of people waited on Jan. 21 morning to get tickets to enter the courtroom, highlighting intense public interest in the trial. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, faced charges including murder and firearms control law violations for using a handmade gun…[Continue Reading...]
TOKYO -- Police have found a document analyzing a woman's personality and upbringing on the computer of a man claiming to practice "polygamy" arrested with two other women for allegedly secretly filming and then selling videos of sexual intercourse with…[Continue Reading...]
A major South Korean newspaper has reported that the religious group previously known as the Unification Church helped at least 290 candidates fielded by Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party during the Lower House election in October 2021. Hankyoreh said it…[Continue Reading...]
The Tokyo High Court has ordered a religious group widely known as the Unification Church to pay damages in a case involving a former follower who made large donations to the group. The court ruled that the group's solicitation of…[Continue Reading...]
It teaches you how people can buy into a total con hook, line and sinker, not only despite its transparent fraudulence but seemingly because of it. It teaches you how otherwise sensible people can go off the deep end to…[Continue Reading...]
A man standing trial for the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 said he was motivated by “despair and a sense of crisis” over a video message Abe sent the year before to a controversial religious…[Continue Reading...]
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