Prosecutors indicted Tetsuya Yamagami on Friday in connection with the July 8 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — a shooting that shocked the world and led to intense scrutiny over ties between religion and politics in Japan. Yamagami,…[Continue Reading...]
An organization affiliated with the Unification Church acquired vast expanses of land in southwest Japan's northern Kyushu region for a project to create an undersea tunnel connecting Japan and South Korea, the Mainichi Shimbun has found. The land spans at…[Continue Reading...]
In the days after Shinzo Abe was shot dead last summer while making an election campaign speech, commentators struggled to articulate a motive for a seemingly senseless attack on Japan’s former and longest-serving prime minister in a country admired for…[Continue Reading...]
NARA--Prosecutors have concluded the suspect in the slaying of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is mentally competent to bear criminal liability based on a months-long psychiatric evaluation and will indict him within days, investigative sources said. A formal charge of murder…[Continue Reading...]
Six months after the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, prosecutors are moving closer to indicting the man accused of the fatal shooting that brought to light links between politicians and the controversial Unification Church. Abe, 67, was…[Continue Reading...]
Six months after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed in broad daylight, an indictment looms for the man suspected of being behind the attack. On July 8, Tetsuya Yamagami allegedly approached Abe from behind during a stump…[Continue Reading...]
Four ministers have been sacked by Fumio Kishida in the past two months amid the Unification Church scandal that emerged following Shinzo Abe’s assassination. The controversial religious group's deep political ties with the ruling party have caused public outrage and…[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...]
Japan’s House of Councillors Saturday passed a law to tighten restrictions on the solicitation of donations by religious and secular groups. The legislation is intended to prevent Japan’s controversial Unification Church, or the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, from…[Continue Reading...]
Japan's parliament on Saturday enacted a law to restrict malicious donation solicitations by religious and other groups, which mainly targets the Unification Church, whose fundraising tactics and cozy ties with the governing party caused public outrage. The South Korean-based religious group's decades-long…[Continue Reading...]
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