In central Tokyo: A church under siege tries to find a way forward
The church sits on a side street just a few minutes’ walk from Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya district, home to one of the world’s ...
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What is the Unification Church, and how will Japan’s probe affect it?
Many Japanese see the church as a cult, with its mass weddings and solicitation of donations, although the church says it no longer engages in what it acknowledged were excessive practices in the ...
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After failures in South Korea, ‘heretical’ church turned to Japan
Even the Cheongshim Peace World Center, where mass weddings have been ... of the revenue coming from Japan. According to South Korean media, the Unification Church owns 46.2 million square meters ...
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Unification Church's ex-member explains how it gains political influence
Moon Sun Myung and his wife at a mass wedding in New York, 1982. The political fallout from the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has shown that the church is well ...