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...]
There must be other readers, I think, who have been keeping one eye on the aftermath of the July 8 assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, shot dead on a street while campaigning for his Liberal Democratic Party…[Continue Reading...]
Tokyo, Feb. 22 (Jiji Press)--A group of 50 former Unification Church followers on Wednesday asked for talks with the controversial religious group to have it pay back some 1,610 million yen to them, including some 140 million yen in damages.…[Continue Reading...]
Sun Myung Moon, the late founder of the Unification Church, said in a sermon in 2005 that hundreds of households of the religious group's members helped elect former Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned. "More than…[Continue Reading...]
Japan’s Cultural Affairs Agency said Tuesday it has received answers to a third set of questions it sent to the controversial religious group known as the Unification Church. The agency will consider whether to seek a court order for the…[Continue Reading...]
TOKYO -- A Mainichi Shimbun team covering the controversial Unification Church and its efforts to connect with the Japanese political circle based on 615-volume records of remarks by the group's founder Sun Myung Moon has won the journalism grand prize…[Continue Reading...]
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