#Tetsuya Yamagami

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[ID: Image from the first Iron Man where he yells at a scientist "iron man was able to do this in a cave with a box of scraps". the caption at the bottom reads "Tetsuya Yamagami managed to do this with a box of scraps and duct tape" END ID]

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Revolution+1 (2022) dir. Masao Adachi

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all i'm saying is my GOAT Tetsuya Yamagami WOULD NEVER MISS

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It's becoming increasingly clear that Tetsuya Yamagami needs to open up a training camp.

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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in July 2022. Inset: Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon, in 1984.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

On the last morning of his life, Shinzo Abe arrived in the Japanese city of Nara, famous for its ancient pagodas and sacred deer. His destination was more prosaic: a broad urban intersection across from the city’s main train station, where he would be giving a speech to endorse a lawmaker running for reelection to the National Diet, Japan’s parliament. Abe had retired two years earlier, but because he was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, his name carried enormous weight. The date was July 8, 2022.

In photos taken from the crowd, Abe—instantly recognizable by his wavy, swept-back hair; charcoal eyebrows; and folksy grin—can be seen stepping onto a makeshift podium at about 11:30 a.m., one hand clutching a microphone. A claque of supporters surrounds him. No one in the photos seems to notice the youngish-looking man about 20 feet behind Abe, dressed in a gray polo shirt and cargo pants, a black strap across his shoulder. Unlike everyone else, the man is not clapping.

Abe started to speak. Moments later, his remarks were interrupted by two loud reports, followed by a burst of white smoke. He collapsed to the ground. His security guards ran toward the man in the gray polo shirt, who held a homemade gun—two 16-inch metal pipes strapped together with black duct tape. The man made no effort to flee. The guards tackled him, sending his gun skittering across the pavement. Abe, shot in the neck, would be dead within hours.

At a Nara police station, the suspect—a 41-year-old named Tetsuya Yamagami—admitted to the shooting barely 30 minutes after pulling the trigger. He then offered a motive that sounded too outlandish to be true: He saw Abe as an ally of the Unification Church, a group better known as the Moonies—the cult founded in the 1950s by the Korean evangelist Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Yamagami said his life had been ruined when his mother gave the church all of the family’s money, leaving him and his siblings so poor that they often didn’t have enough to eat. His brother had committed suicide, and he himself had tried to.

“My prime target was the Unification Church’s top official, Hak Ja Han, not Abe,” he told the police, according to an account published in January in a newspaper called The Asahi Shimbun. He could not get to Han—Moon’s widow—so he shot Abe, who was “deeply connected” to the church, Yamagami said, just as Abe’s grandfather, also a prime minister and renowned political figure in Japan, had been.

Investigators looked into Yamagami’s wild-sounding claims and found, to their alarm, that they were true. After a quick huddle, the police appear to have decided that the Moonie connection was too sensitive to reveal, at least for the moment. It might even affect the outcome of the elections for the Upper House of the Diet, set to take place on July 10. At a press conference on the night of the assassination, a police official would say only that Yamagami had carried out the attack because he “harbored a grudge against a specific group and he assumed that Abe was linked to it.” When reporters clamored for details, the official said nothing.

After the election, the Unification Church confirmed press reports that Yamagami’s mother was a member, and the story quickly took off. The Moonies, it emerged, maintained a volunteer army of campaign workers who had long been a secret weapon not just for Abe but for many other politicians in his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which remains in power under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Later that month, the Japanese tabloid Nikkan Gendai published a list of 111 members of parliament who had connections to the church. In early September 2022, the LDP announced that almost half of its 379 Diet members had admitted to some kind of contact with the Unification Church, whether that meant accepting campaign assistance or paying membership fees or attending church events. According to a survey by The Asahi Shimbun, 290 members of prefectural assemblies, as well as seven prefectural governors, also said they had church ties. The rising numbers exposed a scandal hiding in plain sight: A right-wing Korean cult had a near-umbilical connection to the political party that had governed Japan for most of the past 70 years.

The Japanese were outraged not just by the appearance of influence-peddling but by a galling hypocrisy. Abe was a fervent nationalist, eager to rebuild Japan’s global standing and proudly unapologetic for its imperial past. Now he and his party had been caught in a secretive electoral alliance with a cult that—it soon emerged—had been accused of preying on Japanese war guilt to squeeze billions of dollars from credulous followers.

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Thomas Crooks should have listened to Hamilton.

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"Most successful assassination in history" or however the meme goes.

Anyway, this does rule, the Unification Church are a famous example of the type of cult that abuses the tax exempt status of religions, so good riddance! (X)

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The court cancelled the pre-trial hearing of the man, who faces an accusation of murdering Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe, on Monday after it received a suspicious object, local media reported. The report published by public broadcaster NHK and other outlets was not immediately confirmed by Nara District Court. The court stated that the site was evacuated after what looked like an "unidentified bag" was delivered to the court.

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The Yomiuri Shimbun 16:37 JST, July 7, 2023

The suspect indicted over the murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants no contact with his mother, according to sources. Tetsuya Yamagami has consistently declined offers of detention-house visits from his 70-year-old parent, and has not replied to her letters, the sources said.

Saturday marks one year since Abe was shot and killed while delivering a stump speech in Nara ahead of a House of Councillors election.

Yamagami, 42, is believed to hold a strong grudge against the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, formerly known as the Unification Church. His mother donated large sums of money to the organization and continues to follow the group.

Abe was slain on a street in front of Yamato-Saidaiji Station on the Kintetsu Railway Line in Nara. The Nara District Public Prosecutors Office indicted Yamagami for murder and other charges in January.

The mother donated a total of around ¥100 million to the Unification Church. Yamagami has been quoted by polices as saying that he resented the religious organization and had targeted Abe due to his perceived ties with the group.

Yamagami, who has been held at the Osaka Detention House in Osaka since February, reportedly reads newspapers and magazines daily, including articles about the Unification Church.

Although he has accepted visits from some of his relatives, he did not meet with his mother when she attempted to visit him — apparently for the first time since his arrest — at the detention facility in April, according to several sources.

People around Yamagami are said to have told him that his mother continues to believe in the faith. He is said to have stated that even if he were to meet his mother, she would merely tell him that the religious group is righteous.

The mother reportedly said she wanted to meet her son and restore their parent-child relationship, and that she has not been able to fully explain her faith to her him.

According to relatives, the mother, who joined the Unification Church in 1991, donated money to the church by selling land and her house. She declared voluntarily bankruptcy in 2002. Yamagami is said to have given up on a college education due the consequent lack of family cash.

Sources said that Yamagami attempted suicide in 2005 in a bid to secure insurance money for his brother and sister, but that his mother, who was working for the religious group in South Korea, did not return to Japan at the time.

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Ex-followers in Japan demand $24 million from group known as Unification Church

How Sun Myung Moon bought protection in Japan 1a. The LDP’s Tangled Ties to the Unification Church (2022) 1b. NNLASS press conference held in Tokyo on FFWPU/UC “spiritual sales” (2022)

Richard J. Samuels – Kishi and Corruption:  An Anatomy of the 1955 System (2001)

Parents Form Organization Against New-Religious Sect (1976)

John Roberts – Earth-conquering Moonies (1978)

Kishi wrote a letter to President Reagan to get Moon sprung from jail. (1984)

Why did a Japanese Moon church member kill her Korean husband?

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It's cuz bro didn't use the doohickey

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