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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,
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i was aware of his hawkish stance, but japan has been in the submissive role for too long and they have to be able to defend themselves at some point. china is no saint (it's just that nobody is), america is less and less reliable as decades pass and ideologies shift (we're also an occupying power, just everybody got accustomed to it at this point)
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and connected with the ultra-nationalist and anti-feminist lobby group Nippon Kaigi.
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i didn't know this one (and still don't know what it is). maybe some day
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Originally Posted by choc e-Claire
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).
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yes, the moonies, we've had them for ages, they own the washington times newspaper here in dc, and who knows what else. you can "connect" them to a lot of people via donations and editorial policy i suppose
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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.
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yeah this is the part that i didn't get. wouldn't it be like killing tom cruise because scientology took grandma's savings, or something?
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Did he deserve to die? Maybe not.
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yeah this is the part i didnt get. you sounded like he had it coming for some atrocity where it's more like he was scapegoated for someone else's scams
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But by any measurement it's about the most successful assassination in history - zero suspicion beforehand, nobody else taken out, and it completely worked;
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it think it was "successful" because it was so randomly motivated? totally out of nowhere. plus it yielded nothing?
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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).
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ah--discussions!
the moonies are still a religion here, they aren't going anywhere
https://www.washingtontimes.com/
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Plus it was just exciting to see it happen.
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exciting in the "wow" sense or exciting int he "yay" sense?