To use this site, please disable the ad blocking feature and reload the page.
This website uses cookies to collect information about your visit for purposes such as showing you personalized ads and content, and analyzing our website traffic. By clicking “Accept all,” you will allow the use of these cookies.
Users accessing this site from EEA countries and UK are unable to view this site without your consent. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
The Yomiuri Shimbun Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, attends a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo on Monday.
The Yomiuri Shimbun
12:48 JST, August 16, 2022
The government approved a written response at a Cabinet meeting on Monday that there is no need to examine the relationship between the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (formerly named the Unification Church) and ministers, vice ministers and their aides because it is a matter of their own individual political activities.
In another written response regarding the process of the church’s name change in 2015, the government said it was unable to immediately confirm if any inquiry about the matter had been made by the prime minister or chief cabinet secretary at the time.
