Posted on 07/09/2022 8:12:33 AM PDT by FarCenter
The man accused of gunning down Shinzo Abe believed the former Japanese prime minister was linked to a religious group he blamed for breaking up his family and causing his mother’s bankruptcy, police said.
Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, told police his original intention was to attack the leader of the group — which authorities declined to name, The Guardian reported.
“My mother got wrapped up in a religious group and I resented it,” the Kyodo news agency and other media quoted him as telling police.
Japan’s longest serving prime minister was killed Friday during a campaign stop near a train station in the western city of Nara. Yamagami was arrested at the scene, wielding a homemade gun.
Initial reports said Yamagami believed Abe was tied to a “specific organization” but did not describe its religious nature. The group has not been named.
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A man who was arrested in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8 told investigators that he harbored a “grudge” against him, citing a religious organization, investigative sources said.
“My family joined that religion and our life became harder after donating money to the organization,” Tetsuya Yamagami, who is unemployed, was quoted by the sources as telling police. “I had wanted to target the top official of the organization, but it was difficult. So, I took aim at Abe since I believed that he was tied (to the organization). I wanted to kill him.”
Yamagami, 41, a resident of Nara, also told police that he does not hold any ill feelings toward Abe’s political convictions.
In addition, he told police that he was attempting to make bombs, according to the sources.
A man who identified himself as a relative of Yamagami told The Asahi Shimbun that his family had trouble with the religious organization.
“His family fell apart due to the group,” the man said. “I am convinced that Yamagami suffered damage from the organization.”
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14665352
so he killed someone over a group that he might not even have been in?
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Vulnerable incel given ideas and a perceived solution to his troubles.
Wherever have we seen that before...?
Yamagami said he harboured hatred for this religious group because his mother had been coerced into joining it and was sucked into paying exorbitant membership dues and donations that bankrupted and broke up the family.
Chicom cover story.
>>Chicom cover story.<<
Bingo.
What religious group was Shinzo Abe tied to? Catholicism. The closest thing to a secret order Catholicism has is the Knights of Columbus, whose secret nature is obsolete and was due to their opposition to the Ku Klux Klan.
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https://www.learnreligions.com/aum-shinrikyo-japanese-doomsday-cult-4171578
Japan is not exempt from cults.
Of course KofC has minimal dues. Opus Dei, another organization is less watered down, but never secretive. Opus Dei does ENCOURAGE generous charity. A hard sell from a Catholic perspective, but a relatively soft sell from even a mainstream Protestant perspective. (Not criticizing Protestantism here; Catholics could do well to learn how to press slightly harder for charitable giving.)
The religious group hasn’t been named. It appears that Abe may not have been a member of the group, but the grudge against Abe is because Abe funneled government money to the group. The religious group is apparently involved in spying for the Japanese government, hence the funding.
“Suspected”?
Why would you think this has anything to do with Catholicism?
There are plenty of Japanese cults out there.
Three possibilities. One, the gunman is referring to some cult that the government doesn’t want in the news (yet). Another, the gunman is even more nuts than we think, believing a fake story. Third, the story is a plant to keep the public distracted until at least tomorrow when the Upper House election takes place.
Suspected?
Videoed
Action caught on video
Apprehended video.
A matter is established by the testimony of two witnesses.
Execute.
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I just finished reading a book about Takashi Nagai. A Song for Nagasaki. He already had leukemia from being a researcher in radiation when the bomb dropped. Interesting story about the history of Catholicism in Japan. Takashi was a convert and a devote Catholic. He was one of the leaders after the war in helping Nagasaki heal through prayer, song, and rebuilding. He bought and planted 1000 cherry trees. Very good book. Long history of Catholicism.
The assassination of Shinzo Abe has drawn attention to a fringe political party that had criticized him ahead of Sunday’s upper house election for alleged connections to religious groups.
Social-media users have highlighted comments by Akihiko Kurokawa, secretary-general of the NHK Party, alleging during a campaign debate last month that Abe was to blame for obscure funding of religious groups in Japan allegedly used as a front for “foreign spy activities.”
You have no clue about the Knights of Columbus. They were started by Blssed Father McGivney as a fraternal organization for Catholic men who were barred from other fraternal organizations because of bigotry and discrimination. The KofC also provided life insurance for poor men who worked dangerous jobs (coal mining) so that their widows and children would have a means of support after their deaths. The KofC continues to be a fraternal charity organization and still sells life insurance. The KofC provides sonogram machines to crisis pregnancy centers worldwide.
Why are you posting information that is untrue? Are you just ignorant or do you have an agenda?
The Power of Japan’s Religious Party
December 4, 2014
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s victory in the upcoming December 14 general elections is expected. But the extent of the political foothold of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will be dependent once again on the support of the Soka Gakkai, the massive Buddhism-based organization that dominates Japan’s religious landscape.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/the-power-japans-religious-party
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