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Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is shot and killed with an improvised firearm due to resentment against the Unification Church.
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Shinzo Abe
Prime Minister of Japan (2006–2007, 2012–2020)
Shinzo Abe was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history, serving for nearly nine years in total.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Assassination of Shinzo Abe
2022 shooting in Nara, Japan
On 8 July 2022, Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister of Japan and serving member of the Japanese House of Representatives, was assassinated while speaking at a political event outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara City, Nara Prefecture. Abe was delivering a campaign speech for…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Improvised firearm
Makeshift ranged weapon
Improvised firearms are firearms manufactured by an entity other than a registered firearms manufacturer or a gunsmith. Improvised firearms are typically constructed by adapting existing materials to the purpose. They range in quality, from crude weapons that are as much a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Unification Church
International new religious movement
The Unification Church is a new religious movement, whose members are called Unificationists or sometimes informally Moonies. It was founded in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon in Seoul, South Korea, as the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity ; in 1994, the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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