• Roundcat@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    “The only thing I’m interested in ‘fucking’ is the cult that runs at the underpinnings of this government”

    -Yamagami probably.

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      1 year ago

      His story is amazing. Radicalized by the equivalent of Japan’s alt right, then when he realized that’s who exactly grifted his mother to give away the family wealth, turned his attention to that.

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        1 year ago

        Racialized or radicalized?

        So, he fell for the alt-right bullshit, then later realized they were the grifters and scammers, not the filthy gaijin? That culminating in the assassination of Shinzo Abe sounds straight out of a revenge movie

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          Here’s an article in the Japanese Times. More or less, different publications all have the same story.

          One thing that does change depending on when the article was written is Abe’s connection with the church and the church’s connections to the Japanese and South Korean governments. Police withheld certain details until after the elections and approval ratings for the party dropped after. Generally, people aren’t too happy with that and there was even push back about the government paying for Abe’s funeral.