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  2. Tetsuya Yamagami - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Assassination of Shinzo Abe - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] [5] Abe was delivering a campaign speech for a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate when he was fatally shot by 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami with an improvised firearm. [1] Abe was transported via medical helicopter to Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara, where he was pronounced dead. [6]

  4. 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 ...

  5. What we know about the crude, homemade gun used in ... - AOL

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    Tetsuya Yamagami, center, holding a homemade weapon, is suspected in the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Nara Shimbun / Kyodo News via Associated Press)

  6. Criticism of Unification Church in Japan - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Shinzo Abe - Wikipedia

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    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".

  8. Revolution+1 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Copycat crime - Wikipedia

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    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.