Returning: Dateline

Dateline returns for its 2023 season next Tuesday as Kumi Taguchi goes inside the world of a controversial church some call a ‘cult’.

This church is under investigation for its role in Japanese politics since the assassination of Prime Minister Abe.

“I speak to a really great investigative journalist who has been looking at these links between the family and the church. Abe’s grandfather basically brought to the church to Japan and there was an assassination attempt on him as well,” she told TV Tonight.

“Every time I’ve gone back to Japan, it’s such a personal second home for me, I do probably see the country with slightly rose-coloured glasses…. but it was such a privilege to go back there with that journalistic lens and look at something going on in a country that I hold so close.”

Tuesday, 7 March at 9.30pm on SBS.