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Japanese authorities have obtained court approval to extend the detention of the suspect in former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination earlier this month for 10 more days until they file formal charges

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s alleged shooter, Tetsuya Yamagami, told the police that he was motivated by Abe’s connections to the messianic new religious movement known as the Unification Church.

Tetsuya Yamagami, the suspect in the shooting death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, reportedly harbored a grudge against a religious group known as the Unification Church, blaming it for the disintegration of his family after his mother became a follower. Yamagami was quoted by police as saying that a…

TOKYO: The mother of the man who fatally shot former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe donated about 100 million yen (26.7 million baht) to the Unification Church, the man’s uncle said on Friday.

Officials form Japan’s top police agency began their probe into security lapses blamed for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination a week ago Friday

The graduation album of a public high school in Nara Prefecture contains a photograph of a cheer-squad member supporting his team at the National Invitational High School Baseball Tournament held at Koshien Stadium in the spring of 1998. The stand was almost full that day as the cheering teenager waved…

The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has revealed long-suspected, little-talked-of links between him and the Unification Church

The mother of the man accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has apologized to police, investigative sources told The Yomiuri Shimbun.

Japanese police say they have found a number of what they believe are bullet marks on a building near the site of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination last week in western Japan, apparently from the first shot fired from a suspect’s powerful homemade gun that narrowly missed Abe

The Japanese branch of South Korea’s Unification Church this week acknowledged that the mother of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's suspected killer was a member. But the Unification Church denied allegations that it demanded large donations from anyone.

Late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was neither a member nor an adviser of the religious group previously known as the Unification Church, but had sent messages to events hosted by a related organization, the group's Japan branch said Monday.