Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet approved a new bill Thursday that will ban organizations from using fear to solicit donations, including the use of “spiritual inspiration” as way to push followers into giving funds.
Children of followers of controversial religious groups including the Unification Church said Wednesday they have set up their own group to try to resolve problems they face.
Families and legal experts gave a mixed assessment to a new law aimed at providing relief to the kin of followers of religious organizations and other groups who suffered severe financial hardship as a result of unscrupulous fundraising practices.
Japan’s parliament on Saturday enacted a law to restrict malicious donation solicitations by religious and other groups, which mainly targetsthe Unification Church,whose fundraising tactics and cozy ties with the governing party caused public outrage.
Japan's parliament on Saturday approved a law that bans religious and other organizations from maliciously soliciting donations after a brainwashing controversy surrounding the Unification Church.
A corporate litigation lawyer is suing the estate of an alleged cult leader and her enforcers, claiming he was the victim of a decades-long scheme in which he was manipulated and terrorized into performing thousands of hours of unpaid labor.
A recent YouGov poll explores Americans' attitudes toward 35 religious groups, organizations, and belief systems. Belief systems that encompass the largest shares of Americans — including Christianity, Catholicism, and Protestantism — are among the ones the most Americans view favorably. Viewed leas...
A Tokyo court has given a guilty verdict to five members of a group claiming to be the Japanese arm of U.S. conspiracy cult QAnon, for forcing their way into local coronavirus vaccination sites earlier this year.
Japanese culture minister Keiko Nagaoka said Friday that the government may exercise its right to demand reports from and put questions to the controversial religious group known as the Unification Church for a third time.
The editorial by Preston Brashers in the Dec. 28, 2022, Post Bulletin contains nothing but lies about taxes and the IRS. These lies are being pushed by the worst of the right-wing media.
A Mainichi Shimbun team covering the controversial Unification Church and its efforts to connect with the Japanese political circle based on 615-volume records of remarks by the group's founder Sun Myung Moon has won the journalism grand prize by the Japan Federation of Newspaper Workers' Union.
Tokyo, Jan. 31 (Jiji Press)--Japanese consumer affairs minister Taro Kono said Tuesday that he has instructed the Consumer Affairs Agency to work to start imposing penalties stipulated in the donation victim relief law from April 1.
Yisrael Amir, now 22, was just 12 years old when his father ripped him away from his home in Israel with the promises of a heavenly life in Guatemala, but he instead arrived at a cult compound where leaders have been accused of raping children.
At noon the next day, my mother went visit the woman who preached “Almighty God” to her, and I tagged along. I warned her not to spread any cult fallacy to my mother anymore.
The terrifying new documentary “Aum: The Cult at the End of the World,” which premiered Friday night at the Sundance Film Festival, traces the innocent origins and eventual deadly repercussions of the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan.