The Assassination of Japan's Former Prime Minister in 2022 Revealed Ties Between the Ruling Party and the Unification Church. This Is a Religious Movement that Has Been Followed by a Long Trail of Scandals. the Main Thing From the New Yorker Article

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In July 2022, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead at a rally in Nara. Tetsuya Yamagami turned out to be the killer. On January 21, 2026, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. The motive for the murder was his personal dislike for the Unification Church, a religious movement that had many years of personal ties to Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The New Yorker magazine detailed the story of Yamagami and the Unific…