TOKYO -- A government spokesperson on Feb. 5 declined to comment on recent reporting by a weekly magazine that Prime Minister ...

TOKYO -- The Tokyo High Court will issue a decision March 4 regarding a request from the Ministry of Education, Culture, ...

Tokyo, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--Since the campaign period for Sunday's House of Representatives began on Jan. 27, Japanese Prime ...

The man who killed former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe thought it was his life's mission to destroy a controversial ...

With campaigning underway ahead of Japan's House of Representatives election scheduled for February 8, Japanese media and netizens are questioning whether Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi deliberately ...

The purchases contradict Takaichi's past denial of financial ties to the controversial religious group, according to a ...

Kim Keon Hee sentenced to prison for 20 months for accepting gifts from Unification Church, as court finds abuse of position.

Yoshihiko Noda, co-leader of the main opposition Centrist Reform Alliance (Chudo), attended a gathering in 2001 with ...

SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Wednesday sentenced Rep. Kweon Seong-dong of the main opposition People Power ...

Former first lady Kim Keon Hee was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of receiving luxury gifts ...

If the high court upholds the dissolution order, it will take effect regardless of whether the religious group appeals to the ...

The Tokyo High Court is expected to decide in early March concerning whether to order the Unification Church to ...