The assassination of Shinzo Abe by the son of a Unification Church devotee led Japan to a reckoning about the issue of child abuse and neglect linked to parents' religious affiliations.In the wake of the former prime minister's murder in 2022, the government launched its first nationwide survey which found 37 of the 229 child guidance centers that provided answers, or 16.2 percent, addressed to suspected cases between April 2022 and September 2023.The abuses included parents neglecting to provide medical care for their children or forcing beliefs and practices on them, according to the surv…READ FULL ARTICLE
