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Tetsuya Yamagami (Japanese: 山上 徹也, Hepburn: Yamagami Tetsuya, born 10 September 1980) is a Japanese man who has admitted to assassinating Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, on 8 July 2022. [5] A resident of Nara, he was arrested at the scene of the assassination. He was 41 years old, had no prior criminal history, and was ...
Within hours of a 41-year-old suspect's arrest in the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with an improvised gun, police raided Tetsuya Yamagami's home Friday and found a ...
Yamagami was born on 10 September 1980 in Mie Prefecture [104] to affluent parents who ran a local construction business. [101] Described as quiet and reserved in high school, [ 105 ] [ 106 ] [ 107 ] he wrote in his graduation yearbook that he "didn't have a clue" what he wanted to do in the future.
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On 8 July 2022, Shinzo Abe was assassinated by former Maritime Self-Defense Force seaman Tetsuya Yamagami, whose mother is said to be a member of the Japanese Unification Church since 1998. Yamagami claimed the church was behind his family's financial situation, making his mother donate most of the family fortune to the church, and saw Abe as ...
On 8 July 2022 around 11:30 JST, [97] [98] a 41-year-old man named Tetsuya Yamagami, a former JMSDF member, shot Shinzo Abe and was immediately arrested and later confessed to local police. [99] [100] Yamagami stated that he held a grudge against the Unification Church [8] [9] [10] and shot Abe because "the religious group and Abe were connected".
Revolution+1 follows the life of Tatsuya Kawakami, a semi-fictionalized version of Tetsuya Yamagami, the suspected assassin of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe.The film covers major events in Tatsuya's life, including the suicide of his father, his family's inability to pay for treatments for his brother's blindness, and his mother's membership in the Unification Church.
Yamagami's assassination attempt is described by some commentators as one of the most successful assassinations in modern history for causing huge political and reputational damage to Kishida and Abe's political party, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the Unification Church, which Yamagami claimed to be a victim of.