A Japanese court has ordered the disbandment of the controversial Unification Church over its connection to the death of ...

The Unification Church has had close ties to world politics for decades, but a court ruling in Japan could be the end of the ...

This strips the group of its tax-free status as a religious corporation, but does not stop it from operating in Japan. Read ...

Tokyo's District Court upheld a government revocation request of the church's legal status following an investigation into the 2022 death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The South Korea-based ...

A Tokyo court ordered the dissolution of a religious group whose fundraising methods and ties with ruling party politicians ...

A Japanese court ordered on Tuesday that a religious sect be stripped of official recognition, the government said, in the ...

A Japanese court ordered on March 25 that a religious sect be stripped of official recognition, the government said, in the ...

Yamagami, now in pretrial detention, could face the death penalty if convicted over Shinzo Abe’s killing. Their uncle has described receiving telephone calls for help from Yamagami when his mother ...

"Our claims were accepted,” Japan’s Minister of Education Toshiko Abe said in a statement. Tuesday’s dissolution order was the third in Japan since World War II. Aum Shinrikyo, the death ...

The court says the Federation of World Peace and Unification has inflicted ‘an unprecedentedly large amount of damage’ on Japanese donors, many of ...