Tomonobu Kojima, 47, said, 'There is no mistake' regarding his charges of aiding robberies and committing fraud.

The crime ring is suspected of being involved in a total of over 50 cases across 14 prefectures. Read more at ...

The Tokyo District Court on March 25 ordered the dissolution of the Unification Church for causing “an unprecedentedly large amount of damage” mainly through the questionable solicitation of ...

A Japanese district court has ordered the state to pay a total of 1.2 million yen ($8,260) in compensation to two asylum ...

In 2022, the Tokyo District Court ordered former executives of plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay the company about 13 trillion yen ($92.6 billion) ...

Nobuya Fukumoto, a lawyer representing the Unification Church, outside Tokyo District Court on Tuesday. Kyodo via Reuters. March 26, 2025, 2:25 AM EDT / Source: The Associated Press.

Nobuya Fukumoto, foreground center, a lawyer for the Unification Church, is surrounded by reporters after the church was ordered dissolved by the Tokyo District Court, in front of the court in ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Unification Church in Japan was ordered dissolved by a court Tuesday after a government request spurred by the investigation into the 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister ...

Tokyo District Court judge Masaru Nomura says that former judge and Financial Services Agency (FSA) employee Soichiro Sato’s insider trading abuse has “greatly damaged” market soundness and ...

Nobuya Fukumoto, foreground center, a lawyer for the Unification Church, is surrounded by reporters after the church was ordered dissolved by the Tokyo District Court, in front of the court in ...

A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Unification Church in Japan was ordered dissolved by a court Tuesday after a government request spurred by the investigation into the 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister ...