{"id":46321,"date":"2022-07-12T13:43:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T04:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/shinzo-abe-shooting-suspects-motive-casts-spotlight-on-moonies-links-to-politicians"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:43:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T04:43:23","slug":"shinzo-abe-shooting-who-are-the-moonies-and-why-are-they-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46321","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe shooting: who are the \u2018Moonies\u2019 and why are they in the spotlight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspect Tetsuya Yamagami blames the Unification church, also known as the Moonies, for bankrupting his family<\/p>\n<p>The apparent motive given by the man accused of assassinating Shinzo Abe has cast a spotlight on the Unification church and its ties to politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Tetsuya Yamagami has confessed to killing the former Japanese prime minister during a campaign speech on Friday. He blamed the global religious movement \u2013 whose members are often referred to as Moonies \u2013 for bankrupting his family, and believed that Abe had championed its activities in Japan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/shinzo-abe-shooting-suspects-motive-casts-spotlight-on-moonies-links-to-politicians\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspect Tetsuya Yamagami blames the Unification church, also known as the Moonies, for bankrupting his familyThe apparent motive given by the man accused of assassinating Shinzo Abe has cast a spotlight on the Unification church and its ties to politic&#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":[88,371,638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-religion","category-shinzo-abe"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46321","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=46321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46322,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46321\/revisions\/46322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}