A controversial South Korean church with powerful political connections faces dissolution in Japan after a Tokyo court issued an order to revoke its legal status.

A Japanese court ordered the dissolution of the Unification Church in Japan, following a government request spurred by the investigation into the 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...

A Tokyo court’s ruling to dissolve the Unification Church has ignited a global debate over religious freedom. Critics warn it ...

The church, formally called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, has long been accused by Japan’s government of coercive fundraising tactics and cult-like behaviour ...

The Unification Church said Monday it had appealed a Japanese court's decision to strip the sect of official recognition, in ...

The group argued that the district court order was decided as a foregone conclusion and ignored law and the facts.

The Unification Church said Monday it filed an appeal with the Tokyo High Court against a lower court order for the ...

The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification has designated a Hokkaido-based religious group as the recipient of its ...

The controversial group decided in June 2009 to give its residual assets to Tenchi Seikyo, based in the Hokkaido city of ...

(AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File) Nobuya Fukumoto, foreground center, a lawyer for the Unification Church, is surrounded by reporters after the church was ordered dissolved by the Tokyo District ...