The more than 125 million people there have fewer than 10,000 churches, including Catholic and Orthodox ones. Christians account for less than 1 percent of Japan’s population. According to 2016 ...

The Church in Japan stands at a crossroads. In a country facing a demographic crisis with its aging population and declining ...

Tatsuya Shindo was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese organized crime gang. His arm-length tattoos are a sure sign of ...

What is the Unification Church, and how will Japan’s probe affect it? Japan has launched a probe of the Unification Church, potentially threatening the group’s position in a country it relies ...

With its stunning exterior appearance, the former Sapporo Methodist Church, now the Sapporo Christ Church, looks as if it has popped out of･･･ ...

Akira Doi's son Takumi died at the age of 17 from a brain tumor after spending five years in a coma. Doi, 53, deeply desired ...

The July 2022 shooting of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzō by a man who accused the Unification Church of extorting ... a religious group espousing an anti-Japanese doctrine, managed to cultivate ...

The Unification Church on Oct. 7 tried to stop a news conference ... The news conference was held at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan and the woman in her 20s used the pseudonym of ...

Japanese politicians say they're cutting ties with the controversial former Unification Church after its influence came to light with the July murder of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo.

Japan's Supreme Court has ordered a religious group formerly known as the Unification Church to pay a fine for failing to properly respond to government inquiries.