The church linked to Abe’s killing, Japan’s political turmoil
2022-09-27 10:07:54 source：The Aljazeera
September 27, 2022
Shinzo Abe was not his assassin’s preferred target.
Investigators say Tetsuya Yamagami, who fatally shot Japan’s longest-serving prime minister on July 8, had initially wanted to kill the leader of the Unification Church — a South-Korean religious sect that the 41-year-old blames for his family’s financial ruin. But the COVID-19 pandemic got in the way.
Hak Ja Han Moon, who has led the church since the 2012 death of its founder — her husband Sun Myung Moon — had stopped coming to Japan following pandemic-related border closures.
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