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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 ...
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.
A 41-year-old man named Tetsuya Yamagami, a former JMSDF member, was immediately arrested and later confessed to local police. [310] [311] Yamagami said he held a grudge against the Unification Church [312] [313] [314] and shot Abe because "the religious group and Abe were connected".
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 ...
Japanese prosecutors are expected to formally charge the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder on Friday, his lawyer said. Tetsuya Yamagami was arrested ...
[169] [170] Kajikuri was known to have invited Abe to a 2021 online conference held by one of the fronts of the church, Universal Peace Federation, and that particular appearance is cited as one of the major reasons that drove a church victim, Tetsuya Yamagami, into assassinating Abe in July 2022. [171]
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.
He then strangles and decapitates Jun Hase, an 11-year-old boy, leaving his head in front of his school with a note stuffed in his mouth, and sends taunting letters to a newspaper. The nation is shocked when a 14-year-old is arrested, and eventually prompted the government to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 14 in 2000. 1997