• TassieTosser@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      Yagami Tetsuya assassinated Abe Shinzo, former PM of Japan, while he was drumming up support for a candidate from his party. The motive was his mother draining the family savings account to donate to a Christian cult known as the Unification Church, aka Moonies. He actually wanted to kill the Moonie leadership but deemed it unrealistic, so he went after Abe who had ties to the cult. After the assassination, it came out that a lot of Japanese leadership had ties to the cult and there was a bit of a witch-hunt.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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        1 year ago

        Calling the Moonies Christian is… Debatable.

        The founder got excommunicated by the Presbyterians.

        Really good Behind the Bastards episodes on them btw.

    • Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Guy’s mother joined a cult and ended up donating the family’s entire savings, leaving them in poverty. He’s supper pissed about the conditions they live in and eventually assassinates the former PM who was apparently involved with said cult somehow. Now it seems the government is earnestly considering the conditions which created such despair in the man.

      I’m just working off memory, but that’s the basics of it I think.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I mean, killing a member of the government will definitely get the government’s attention.