Tokyo High Court, in its March 4 ruling, upheld a decision dissolving the Unification Church of Japan and it is likely to ...

The church, whose links to former prime minister Shinzo Abe were at the heart of his assassination, will be forced to return ...

The church popularly known as Moonies came under scrutiny after the 2022 killing of ex-PM Shinzo Abe.

The Unification Church on Monday filed a special appeal with Japan's top court against a high court ruling ordering its dissolution.

A former Cabinet minister has admitted to lobbying in support of the Unification Church’s controversial 2015 name change, telling The Asahi Shimbun he acted because the group had provided him with ...

A court in Japan has ordered the Unification Church's local arm dissolved, after it bilked followers for decades. Ties between the church and Japan's ruling party became a political scandal.

The special appeal came after the Tokyo High Court last week upheld the dissolution order issued by the Tokyo District Court.

The order will take immediate effect, with the group losing its religious corporation tax status and liquidation procedures ...

The high court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision last year that stripped the group of its status as a religious ...

The unification ministry said Friday it will pursue a "peace declaration" designed to express the political will to end the 1950-53 Korean War in a bid to seek the transition of the current armistice ...

The Tokyo High Court on March 4 upheld a lower court’s order for the former Unification Church to dissolve, agreeing that the organization’s solicitation for large donations has continued to harm ...