The figure compares with the Liberal Democratic Party’s announcement in 2022 that 180 of its lawmakers had ties with the ...

A major South Korean newspaper has reported that the religious group previously known as the Unification Church helped at ...

Prosecutors on Thursday sought life imprisonment for the man standing trial over the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 that shed light on the controversial ...

Tetsuya Yamagami’s path to the assassination had many turning points, but his alarm over the Unification Church's ties with ...

Yamagami Tetsuya’s trial will renew attention to the powerful effect of religious groups in Japanese politics, and the LDP’s ...

The gunman accused of killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe pleaded guilty Tuesday, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world. The slaying forced a reckoning ...

Tomihiro Tanaka, the head of the Unification Church’s Japan branch, resigned on Dec. 9 as the organization awaits a key court ruling on whether it should be dissolved over decades of alleged coercive ...

The man who was charged with assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has apologised in court for the first time to the Abe family, saying he had “no ill will whatsoever”. Tetsuya ...

TOKYO — A man accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to go on trial on Tuesday, three years after the assassination of Japan's longest-serving premier stunned a nation ...

TOKYO (AP) — The trial of the accused killer of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began Tuesday. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, appeared in court as U.S. President Donald Trump visits Japan for talks ...

The man accused of assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has apologised to the ex-leader's family for the first time. Tetsuya Yamagami, who earlier pleaded guilty to murder, told the ...