The Assassination of Shinzo Abe and the Unification Church
The assassination in Nara, Japan, of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8, 2022, was explained by the criminal with the fact that the politician had attended initiatives sponsored by the Unification Church, now called the Family Federation of World Peace and Unification. The killer ha...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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The journal of CESNUR
Year: 2022, Volume: 6, Issue: 6, Pages: 74-96 |
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| Summary: | The assassination in Nara, Japan, of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8, 2022, was explained by the criminal with the fact that the politician had attended initiatives sponsored by the Unification Church, now called the Family Federation of World Peace and Unification. The killer hated the Unification Church, he said, because his mother had gone bankrupt in 2002 after extravagant donations to the religious movement. In fact, he had originally planned to assassinate the leader of the Family Federation, and test-fired his gun by shooting at a building which was once a place of worship for the group. While the weak mind of the assassin had clearly been excited by anti-Unification-Church campaigns by militant lawyers and anti-cultists, the latter succeeded in persuading most media, both in Japan and internationally, that rather than being a victim the Unification Church was somewhat responsible for the homicide, in a spectacular reversal of both logic and fairness. |
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| ISSN: | 2532-2990 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of CESNUR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2022.6.6.4 |