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The Sankei Shimbun reported on the 14th that Tetsuya Yamagami, who shot and killed former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during an election campaign, said, “I thought that if Abe was attacked, the criticism would be focused on the Family Federation for World Peace and Reunification (Unification Church).”
Sankei reported that Yamagami said, “My mother donated a large amount to the Unification Church and the family is in a mess,” citing an investigative person.
Asahi reported that Yamagami’s mother donated over 100 million yen (about 950 million won), including 50 million yen in insurance money from the death of her husband after becoming a member of the Unification Church.
Yamagami’s mother sold the land she inherited in 1999 and the detached house in Nara, where her family lived, and was declared bankrupt by a court in 2002.
The Japanese branch of the Unification Church said, “We did not know the exact amount of the donation, but it returned 50 million yen for 10 years from 2005.”
On the other hand, Kyodo News reported that Yamagami “made the pressure cooker bomb” and said “the bomb involved an unrelated person (in the case), so he quit and instead made a gun that was easy to target.”
On the 8th, Yamagami approached former Prime Minister Abe, who was campaigning for support for a candidate for the LDP’s lower house election in Nara City, Nara Prefecture, and shot and killed him with a gun he had built.
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