and that the majority of the church’s worldwide funding comes from Japan. Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US ...

But the shooting of Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe might have been the beginning of the end. His death sparked investigations that revealed the lengths the church was going to to fund ...

Japan opened itself to a greater foreign interaction in 1853, but proselytism was still banned. In 1873, the Japanese government ended its repressive attitude under pressure from western nations and ...

Meet Amaterasu Omikami, the goddess of Japan who is loved beyond borders and whose gentleness is like that of Japan’s temperate weather — not so cold not so hot. Omikami lives in a 5,500 metre ...