A court found Japan’s refusal to legalize same-sex marriage was constitutional Friday in the last of six cases that are ...

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TOKYO – Japan’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court order urging the controversial religious group Unification Church to disband, calling it “necessary and inevitable” after decades of its ...

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