Japan searches for motives behind the senseless attack
, just as they supported conservatives in America, where the church also attracted followers.
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. Three big mistakes made Mr Abe’s killing possible, says a former senior security official.First, the branch of Tokyo’s police charged with protecting dignitaries does not have enough manpower to guard all of Japan’s many former prime ministers.
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