Minister of Culture Kishida has been tasked with looking into the Unification Church.

After tight ties between the Unification Church and MPs in the ruling party were uncovered after the killing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida launched an investigation into the church on Monday.

Growing outrage that members of his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) did not properly disclose their ties to the church, which was founded in South Korea in the 1950s and is famous for its mass ....