The Unification Church has come under intense scrutiny in Japan since a former prime minister was assassinated, but it could ...

If confirmed, the sect nicknamed the ‘Moonies’ may become the third religious group ordered to disband in Japan.

The Unification Church said the mother of Shinzo Abe’s suspected assassin is a member of the religious group but did not detail her donations that may be connected to the motive behind the shooting.

Tetsuya Yamagami indicated he planned to kill former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in an anonymous letter sent to a freelance writer who has also criticized the Unification Church, investigative ...

After the shocking assassination of Shinzo Abe in 2022, Japan’s reaction defied expectations. Instead of rallying around their longest-serving prime minister, public opinion turned sharply against him ...

Politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party showed mixed reactions to an Asahi Shimbun article about a 2013 meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the head of the Unification Church.

The suspect in the slaying a year ago today of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ... that he targeted Abe because of the lawmaker’s close ties with the Unification Church, formally known as ...

July 8 will mark two years since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed ... “I am not aware of any deep involvement” between Abe and the church, she said. Yamagami’s trial ...

The church is now officially called the Family ... His son, Shinzo, twice served as Japan’s prime minister. Shinzo Abe’s grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, was also prime minister.

NARA--Police believe that holes found in the outer walls of a religious group's facility here came from bullets fired from the same gun used to shoot and kill former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.