Committee members of Japan's Lower House have agreed on a vote of a revised draft of a bill aimed at helping people who have suffered damage from the actions of the former Unification Church.
The vote is scheduled for Thursday. Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is to attend the session ahead of the voting.
Japan's government has put forward a bill to help the financial victims of religious corporations.
That includes the religious group, formally known as the Unification Church, which has been in the spotlight since the man who shot former prime minister Abe Shinzo cited its exploitation of his family as his motivation.
Families of people who donated large sums of money to the religious group previously known as the Unification Church say proposed legislation to help those affected is not enough. They say it should take into account the reality of their suffering.
The Japanese government's planned legislation is aimed at providing relief to victims of the religious group and other entities.
Dozens of people have attended a ceremony in Tokyo to remember the millions of Ukrainians who died in the 1932-33 famine, known as the "Holodomor."
Ukraine marks the Holodomor on the fourth Saturday of every November. The Ukrainian government says the famine was engineered by the government of the former Soviet Union.
More than 200 lawyers from across Japan have formed a new group to support those who say they have suffered damage from the former Unification Church.
The religious body is accused of soliciting large donations from followers and conducting dubious marketing practices known as spiritual sales.
Japan's Supreme Court has ordered the government to pay more than 22 million dollars in compensation to former construction workers who developed lung diseases caused by asbestos.
The ruling is the first holding the government responsible in lawsuits filed by former construction workers and bereaved families. The plaintiffs say former workers developed lung cancer and other illnesses after inhaling asbestos at construction sites. They have demanded that the state and manufacturers of the material pay damages.
The remains of an 18-year-old victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima have been identified after 75 years.
The remains were discovered last year in a Tokyo building that used to house the RIKEN research institute and were handed over to the Hiroshima city authorities this month.
One year has passed since Typhoon Hagibis made landfall in Japan. Bereaved families in a northeastern town have offered prayers for the victims of the disaster.
About 100 people attended a memorial ceremony on Monday in Marumori, Miyagi Prefecture.
Bereaved families and others gathered on Sunday to mourn those who perished in an eruption of Mount Ontake in central Japan six years ago.
The eruption left 58 people dead and five missing at the popular climbing destination. It was Japan's deadliest volcanic disaster since World War Two.
NHK has learned that 34 users of the e-money service of mobile carrier NTT Docomo have had a total of 10 million yen, or over 94 thousand dollars, illicitly withdrawn from their bank accounts as of Wednesday.
NTT Docomo says it will enter discussions on compensating the victims with the banks in question.
People in Japan's northern prefecture of Hokkaido are remembering the victims of a powerful earthquake that struck exactly two years ago. The quake left 44 people dead and 785 injured.
The town of Atsuma was hardest hit, with 37 deaths. Many of those who died were engulfed in massive mudslides triggered by the jolt.
People in the city of Hiroshima, western Japan, have remembered the victims of a series of landslides caused by heavy rain six years ago.
Rain of more than 100 millimeters per hour caused landslides at 166 locations in the city on August 20, 2014, directly or indirectly killing 77 people.
A memorial ceremony has been held to mark 35 years since a Japan Airlines jumbo jet crashed in a mountainous village north of Tokyo, killing 520 people.
Ahead of the ceremony in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, 141 members of 50 bereaved families climbed a mountain trail to the crash site on Osutaka Ridge. The annual trek was spread over five days this time to prevent coronavirus infections.
Relatives of the victims of Japan's worst air disaster will remember their loved ones at the crash site on Wednesday, the 35th anniversary of the accident. This commemoration comes amid the continuing spread of the coronavirus.
A Japan Airlines jumbo jet crashed into a mountain in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on August 12, 1985. Five hundred and twenty people on board were killed.