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​Members of the Lawyers from Across Japan for the Victims of the Unification Church（LAJAVUC）attend a press conference as the Tokyo District Court issued a dissolution order to the Unification Church, the religious group formerly called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, in Tokyo on March 25, 2025.
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Japan bans Moonies

On Tuesday, a Tokyo court revoked the legal status of the Unification Church in Japan, ordering the sect known as the Moonies to disband following a government problem spurred by the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kihsida speaks to media at the Prime Minister’s office in Tokyo on Oct. 12, 2023.
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Japan moves to punish Unification Church

Japan’s government has asked a court to strike the legal status of the Unification Church, which has been at the center of an investigation for over a year following the assassination of former PM Shinzo Abe.

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Grief & controversy in Japan for Shinzo Abe's state funeral
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Grief & controversy in Japan for Shinzo Abe's state funeral

Ian Bremmer reports from Tokyo, Japan, following the state funeral of Shinzo Abe, the prime minister who was assassinated some 80 days ago. An astonishing couple of weeks for the world: early last week, the funeral for Queen Elizabeth, by far the most important figure for the United Kingdom in the post-war period. Then the United Nations General Assembly, where the entire world comes together in New York, and now the first state funeral held in Japan in 55 years for Abe Shinzo, who is by far the most important figure in Japan in the post-war period.

Why Japan’s political Moonies have staying power
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Why Japan’s political Moonies have staying power

It'll be hard for Japan's ruling party to completely cut ties with the Unification Church — no matter how unpopular the Moonies have become in the wake of former PM Shinzo Abe's assassination.