Assassination of Shinzo Abe
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On 8 July 2022, Shinzo Abe, the 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
Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station, several hours after the shooting
Prime Minister Kishida reads Abe's eulogy in his state funeral in Nippon Budokan
Abe in March 2022
Kirigaya Funeral Hall, where Abe's funeral was held
Unification Church
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The Unification Church, officially the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, is an Abrahamic monotheistic new religious movement, whose members are called Unificationists or sometimes inf
Assassination of Shinzo Abe
…was upgraded to murder after Abe's death was confirmed. Yamagami told investigators that he had shot Abe in relation to a grudge he held against the Unification Church (UC), a new religious movement to which Abe and his family had political ties, over his mother's bankruptcy in 2002. The assassination brought scrutiny…
Official emblem
Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, founders of the Unification Church
The first Blessing ceremony outside of Korea was a mass wedding in Madison Square Garden, New York City, on July 1, 1982.
Unification Church leader Hak Ja Han was arrested in South Korea in September 2025