The Unification Church has come under intense scrutiny in Japan since a former prime minister was assassinated, but it could ...

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

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 ...

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

Kwak Chung-hwan, once a close associate of Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, is now one of the critics of the group. “Donations from Japan have provided a large pillar for ...

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. It also addressed for the first ...

Tokyo, March 4 (Jiji Press)--Japan’s Supreme Court has upheld lower court rulings ordering the Unification Church’s head in Japan to pay a fine of 100,000 yen for refusing to answer some ...

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

The Vatican has sent a letter to a Japanese man acquitted of a 1966 quadruple murder in a retrial, expressing the pope's joy ...

The Vatican has sent a letter to a Japanese man acquitted of a 1966 quadruple murder in a retrial, expressing the pope's joy ...