Unification Church faces uphill task in Japan to fight court’s liquidation ruling

2026-03-03 - 02:05

Representatives of the Unification Church, the controversial South Korea-founded religious group that became a political flashpoint in Japan after the 2022 assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, are set to return to court on Wednesday as judges consider whether to strip it of its legal status. The Tokyo High Court is widely expected to uphold a lower court’s dissolution order against the group, officially known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, in a case that...