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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 ...
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 ...
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.
The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, who was immediately arrested by Japanese police, confessed to targeting the former prime minister because of Abe's reported ties with the Unification Church. This was the first assassination of a former Japanese prime minister since 1936. A polarizing figure in Japanese politics, Abe was described by supporters as ...
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.
Shinzo Abe (/ ˈ ʃ ɪ n z oʊ ˈ ɑː b eɪ / SHIN-zoh AH-bay; Japanese: 安倍 晋三, Hepburn: Abe Shinzō, IPA: [abe ɕindzoː]; 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as the prime minister of Japan and president of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020.
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".