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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
so what was about abe's killing that made it good for you? wasn't he out of power already? what was the point? (i really never knew, and trying to read about it is even more confusing)
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Abe was a right-wing conservative even by the standards of Japanese politics, fully defensive of war crimes and sex slavery from WWII, actively working towards remilitarising the country and provoking reactions from Korea and China, and connected with the ultra-nationalist and anti-feminist lobby group Nippon Kaigi.
The actual assassination was over Abe's links with the Unification Church, an obsessively anti-communist religious group that's been heavily involved in Japanese politics (half of his last cabinet was connected to it). The assassin's mother had basically fallen victim to cult practices and it had left her family impoverished, so this was basically a grudge killing over a connected target.
Did he deserve to die? Maybe not. But by any measurement it's about the most successful assassination in history - zero suspicion beforehand, nobody else taken out, and it completely
worked; the Japanese government (still from Abe's party, who've been in power for almost the entirety of the last seventy years) began to discuss the church's influence more heavily and introduced legislation to restrict the donations they could receive (although it wasn't formally stripped of its religious status). Plus it was just exciting to see it happen.