The assassination in 2022 of Shinzo Abe, the country’s former prime minister, led to an investigation into the group’s political ties and manipulation of its followers to raise funds.

“Since the assassination of former prime minister Abe, there has been a lot of misinformation ... the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, in downtown Seoul, South Korea, on ...

this enduring partnership has served as a cornerstone of regional stability in Asia – a development significantly shaped by Japan’s late Prime Minister Abe Shinzo (in office 2006-07 and again ...

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 ...

Fukushima says Abe's wife arrived in the late afternoon. At 5:03 p.m., four and a half hours after the former prime minister was brought to the hospital, they stopped treatment. Security failure ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has collapsed after he was shot at an event in the city of Nara. Mr Abe was shot twice, with the second shot hitting him in the back, causing him to fall ...

Abe, 67, was assassinated by a gunman on Friday while giving a campaign speech in Nara, Japan Current and former world leaders are reacting to the news that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo ...

Junichiro Matsumoto, 76, is charged with making false entries in the political fund reports of the faction once led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for the years between 2018 and 2022.

The homemade gun used in the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apparently employed an electrical charge to ignite homemade gunpowder that would then fire off a volley of conventional ...

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A Japanese court has ordered the dissolution of the controversial Unification Church linked to the 2022 assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe. The church, formally called the Family ...

The Unification Church came under scrutiny after the killing of former PM Shinzo Abe in 2022. A scandal over alleged kickbacks has again fuelled public anger at the country's long-ruling party.