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...]
The Unification Church has settled money disputes with at least 46 former followers before the cases were taken to court, according to a group of lawyers. These cases show that problems with the church’s aggressive donation-collecting practices and “spiritual sales” have…[Continue Reading...]
A Japanese ruling party lawmaker has admitted that he attended a meeting held by the religious group widely known as the Unification Church during an election campaign last year, but did not report it to the party. Tsuruho Yosuke, a…[Continue Reading...]
The welfare ministry on Monday issued administrative guidance to the controversial religious group known as the Unification Church over adoptions that are said to have taken place among its followers. In the guidance, the ministry emphasized that adoption is meant…[Continue Reading...]
No matter what you call them, extremist religious groups led by charismatic gurus are rarely to be trusted. Japan learned that lesson the hard way on Mar. 20, 1995, when a sarin gas attack on Tokyo’s subway system left 13…[Continue Reading...]
The man who assassinated former Abe Shinzo in July 2022 was motivated by the belief that the former prime minister was linked to a religious group known as the Unification Church. It was subsequently revealed that in fact many Diet…[Continue Reading...]
The phrase ‘Shukyo Nisei’, literally translating to ‘religion second generation’, featured in the annual list of the top 10 Japanese buzzwords for 2022, curated by Japanese publisher Jiyu Kokumin Sha. The phrase refers to children of parents who are devout…[Continue Reading...]
OSAKA -- "He must have thought, 'if it weren't for their religion,' because I was the same," said a 45-year-old man who was raised by religious parents as a "second-generation follower" about Tetsuya Yamagami, who has been indicted for the…[Continue Reading...]
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