Corporal punishment, specifically whipping, has been systemically used by followers of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious group against their children in Japan, a survey showed Tuesday. Submitting the results of the survey to the welfare ministry, a group of children of…[Continue Reading...]
SEOUL — Diplomatic documents newly released by South Korea’s foreign ministry have revealed that Unification Church-founder Sun Myung Moon was allowed to enter Japan in 1992 through the intervention of Shin Kanemaru, then vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party.…[Continue Reading...]
NARA – The suspect in the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has voiced hope for relief for victims of the controversial religious group known as the Unification Church, his lawyers revealed on Thursday. Tetsuya Yamagami, 42, has…[Continue Reading...]
NARA--Prosecutors here wrapped up their investigation into the man accused of murdering former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by bringing additional charges against the suspected assassin. Tetsuya Yamagami, 42, was indicted on charges of violating the Firearms and Swords Control Law…[Continue Reading...]
Forty-one local assembly members felt compelled to return or correct their expenses for political activities because they involved matters concerning the Unification Church, The Asahi Shimbun learned. Local governments provide local assembly members with funds, courtesy of taxpayers, for political activities to…[Continue Reading...]
Japan on Monday marked 28 years since the AUM Shinrikyo cult's nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000, at a time when another controversial religious group continues to draw public attention…[Continue Reading...]
The words are a barely legible scrawl, written in a diary by a child who had been living at a facility run by the AUM Shinrikyo cult before being placed in the temporary care of a child consultation center in…[Continue Reading...]
A group of lawyers in Japan has been formed to support children of followers of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious organization. “We want to stop the violation of the human rights” of such second-generation followers, Jun Tabata, a member of the…[Continue Reading...]
Many local legislators from Japan attended an event in South Korea held in February 2020 by a group affiliated with the controversial Unification Church, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned. One former municipal assembly member who took part said they heard…[Continue Reading...]
The assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzō by a second-generation member of the Unification Church claiming that his mother’s donations to the organization destroyed his family has focused attention on the UC’s deep ties with the ruling Liberal Democratic…[Continue Reading...]
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