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...]
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...]
Tokyo, Jan. 18 (Jiji Press)--Japanese culture minister Keiko Nagaoka on Wednesday exercised for the third time the government's right to demand reports from and put questions to the controversial religious group known as the Unification Church. The group is required…[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...]
"Missionaries" from The Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles were seen handing out flyers to youths in Jerusalem inviting them to an event, according to a post on Facebook that attached the flyer. The Collegiate Association for the Research…[Continue Reading...]
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...]
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