https://www.ft.com/content/a31f0f6d-39c9-4990-9081-057f773d56d4
Widely derided as a cult, the Unification Church spread to the west in the late 1950s and expanded aggressively throughout the world in the 1990s.
Its Japanese branch opened in 1959 and has 600,000 members.
Although not members, Abe and his late grandfather Nobusuke Kishi, also a former Japanese prime minister, were publicly known as supporters of the church.
