Opposition demands extra Diet session to probe Unification Church ties

Japanese opposition parties called Thursday for an extraordinary parliamentary session to be opened as soon as possible to examine the controversial links between members of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government and the Unification Church.The move came as increasing numbers of ruling party lawmakers have been tied to the religious group, a major political issue in the wake of the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.Among them, Koichi Hagiuda, policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, who has come under public scrutiny after being reported to have visited a facil…READ FULL ARTICLE