The killer told investigators that he intended to avenge a grudge against the Unification Church, a cult-like religious group—sometimes known as the “Moonies”—to which neither he nor Mr Abe belonged
neighbourhood of Nara, an ancient capital in western Japan, is unremarkable. A tangle of quiet streets winds around boxy apartment blocks tightly packed together. Inside are standard-issue working-class Japanese flats: modest rectangular rooms with low ceilings, fluorescent lighting and the damp odour of a humid Japanese summer. In one such home, Yamagami Tetsuya assembled the gun he usedMr Yamagami’s choice of target could hardly have been more political.
But Mr Yamagami’s motives instead seem to have been more personal. He told investigators that he killed Mr Abe to avenge a grudge against the Unification Church, a cult-like religious group to which neither he nor Mr Abe belongs. The convoluted connection requires a bit of unpacking., a self-proclaimed messiah who was later imprisoned in America for tax fraud.
Security failures made it possible for Mr Yamagami to carry out his plan. “In Japan, the idea that such assassinations ‘could not happen’ became very widespread,” says Fukuda Mitsuru, a crisis-management expert at Nihon University in Tokyo, adding, “We were caught off guard.” Three major mistakes made Mr Abe’s killing possible, says a former senior security official.
As Japan has sought to make sense of the killing, commentators have plumbed the depths of Mr Yamagami’s psychology. Some argue that a focus on ties between theand the Unification Church or on police failures obscures deeper socioeconomic forces that may have unmoored Mr Yamagami from society. Reports in Japanese media paint him as a member of a precariat that came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, after the country’s economic bubble burst.
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