{"id":48766,"date":"2022-09-23T11:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T02:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/23\/unification-church-says-it-accepted-excessive-donations-from-mother-of-suspect-in-abe-killing"},"modified":"2022-09-23T11:28:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T02:28:42","slug":"unification-church-says-it-accepted-excessive-donations-from-mother-of-suspect-in-abe-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48766","title":{"rendered":"Unification Church says it accepted \u2018excessive\u2019 donations from mother of suspect in Abe killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church official says he was upset to hear suspect told police his anger towards church led to attack on former Japanese PM<\/p>\n<p>The Unification Church, whose close ties with Japan\u2019s governing party have emerged after the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, has acknowledged it accepted \u201cexcessive\u201d donations from the suspect\u2019s mother, and that it would need to seriously consider if that led to the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Abe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">died after a shooting during an outdoor campaign speech<\/a> in July. The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, said he shot Abe because of the former prime 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\/sep\/23\/unification-church-says-it-accepted-excessive-donations-from-mother-of-suspect-in-abe-killing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church official says he was upset to hear suspect told police his anger towards church led to attack on former Japanese PMThe Unification Church, whose close ties with Japan\u2019s governing party have emerged after the assassination of former prime ministe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,88,371,638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-religion","category-shinzo-abe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48766","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48767,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48766\/revisions\/48767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}