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The assassination in 2022 of Shinzo Abe, the country’s former prime minister, led to an investigation into the group’s ...

The decision of the court in Tokyo strips the Unification Church of its religious organization status, following a request by ...

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

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TOKYO, Japan — A controversial South Korean church with powerful political connections faces dissolution in Japan after a Tokyo court ordered a revokation of its legal status after the ...

The move followed a series of such attacks in recent years, including the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 and a bomb attack on then-Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in 2023.