{"id":46941,"date":"2022-08-01T19:23:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T10:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/revelations-shinzo-abe-death-unification-church-moonies-political-influence-japan"},"modified":"2022-08-01T19:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T10:23:43","slug":"revelations-since-shinzo-abe-death-shed-light-on-moonies-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46941","title":{"rendered":"Revelations since Shinzo Abe death shed light on Moonies\u2019 influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Details emerge showing Unification church\u2019s political ties go further than Japan\u2019s longest-serving prime minister<\/p>\n<p>Japan was still struggling to make sense of the violent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">death of Shinzo Abe<\/a> when the man suspected of killing him gave police information that has sent shockwaves through the country\u2019s political establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Tetsuya Yamagami said he shot Abe because of the former primer minister\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/shinzo-abe-shooting-suspects-motive-casts-spotlight-on-moonies-links-to-politicians\">links to the Unification church<\/a>, also known as the Moonies, which he blamed for bankrupting his family. Yamagami\u2019s mother, a longtime member of the church, reportedly gave it \u00a5100m [\u00a3618,000] in donations two decades ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/11\/mother-of-shinzo-abe-killing-suspect-member-of-moonies-church\">plunging their family into poverty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/revelations-shinzo-abe-death-unification-church-moonies-political-influence-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details emerge showing Unification church\u2019s political ties go further than Japan\u2019s longest-serving prime ministerJapan was still struggling to make sense of the violent death of Shinzo Abe when the man suspected of killing him gave police information t&#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":[41,88,638,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","category-south-korea","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\/46941","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=46941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46942,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46941\/revisions\/46942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}