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...]
The leader of a controversial religious sect that worships with AR-15s has been taking notes from the niche but growing music subgenre dubbed “MAGA Rap.” Pastor Hyung-Jin “Sean” Moon, the flamboyant figurehead of the Rod of Iron Ministries (also known…[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...]
Some 10% of prefectural assembly members across Japan have had ties with the controversial religious group known as the Unification Church, a Jiji Press survey showed Sunday. The survey has implications for next spring’s unified local elections, in which such…[Continue Reading...]
The new law, approved at this year's closing parliamentary session, bans religious and other groups from using coercion or threats to solicit funds from followers. Many Unification Church followers claim they were forced to join, left in poverty, or neglected because of their parents' devotion to the…[Continue Reading...]
Japan’s lower house of parliament has passed a law that will make it a crime for religious and other organisations to “maliciously” secure donations from members – a move seen as an attempt by the ruling party to defuse the…[Continue Reading...]
TOKYO – The Liberal Democratic Party has presented to opposition parties a draft amendment to a bill prohibiting improper solicitations of large donations as a way to have the bill passed during the Diet session ending Saturday. The bill was…[Continue Reading...]
Thirty-one adoptions took place among followers of the Unification Church after it became mandatory for adoption mediation agencies to obtain approval in April 2018, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The group officially known as the Family Federation for World Peace…[Continue Reading...]
Japan's government on Thursday approved a bill tightening the rules on religious donations after scrutiny of controversial fundraising practices by the Unification Church. Claims that the church pressures followers to donate huge sums have been discussed in parliament since former…[Continue Reading...]
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