Before intermission, a high-energy group of youngsters demonstrated Taekwondo moves, complete with loud shouts, dramatic music and the breaking of boards with feet. Taekwondo is the national sport of ...

A controversial South Korean church with powerful political connections faces dissolution in Japan after a Tokyo court issued ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Unification Church in Japan was ordered ... Japan's Education Ministry in 2023 to dissolve the influential South Korea-based sect, citing manipulative fundraising and ...

champions anti-communism and the unification of the Korean Peninsula, which has been split between the totalitarian North and democratic South. The church is perhaps best known for mass weddings ...