{"id":46286,"date":"2022-07-11T17:44:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T08:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/11\/mother-of-shinzo-abe-killing-suspect-member-of-moonies-church"},"modified":"2022-07-11T22:12:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T13:12:40","slug":"shinzo-abe-killing-moonies-church-confirms-suspects-mother-is-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46286","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe killing: \u2018Moonies\u2019 church confirms suspect\u2019s mother is member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tetsuya Yamagami\u2019s mother attends meetings, says Unification church, after he told investigators of grudge<\/p>\n<p>The mother of the man accused of assassinating Shinzo Abe is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2008\/apr\/26\/religion.korea\">Unification church<\/a>, which the suspect has cited as a motive for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">fatal shooting of the former Japanese prime minister<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>The church, whose members are colloquially known as Moonies, confirmed at a press conference on Monday that the mother of Tetsuya Yamagami, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/man-arrested-for-after-fatal-shooting-of-shinzo-abe\">detained moments after he shot Abe<\/a> from behind during an election campaign speech on Friday, attends meetings about once a month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/11\/mother-of-shinzo-abe-killing-suspect-member-of-moonies-church\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tetsuya Yamagami\u2019s mother attends meetings, says Unification church, after he told investigators of grudgeThe mother of the man accused of assassinating Shinzo Abe is a member of the Unification church, which the suspect has cited as a motive for his f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46299,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46286\/revisions\/46299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}