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

The head of the Unification Church's Japan branch vowed to fight a court order revoking its legal protections, following a ...

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.

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 ...

He was Japan’s first prime minister born after World War II. His grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, was Japan’s prime minister from 1957 to 1960. Abe’s great uncle, Eisuke Sato, was prime minister ...

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Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe floated the idea of Japan “sharing” in the possession of nuclear weapons, as is practiced by some NATO members, a possibility flatly rejected by Prime Minister ...