{"id":52884,"date":"2025-12-05T04:43:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=52884"},"modified":"2025-12-05T04:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:43:53","slug":"man-who-killed-ex-japan-pm-shinzo-abe-apologises-to-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=52884","title":{"rendered":"Man who killed ex-Japan PM Shinzo Abe apologises to his family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The man accused of assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has apologised to the ex-leader’s family for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tetsuya Yamagami, who earlier pleaded guilty to murder<\/a>, told the court on Thursday that he felt “deeply sorry” towards Abe’s widow, Akie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yamagami used a homemade gun to shoot Abe during a political campaign event in the western city of Nara on 8 July 2022. He died in the hospital on the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abe’s death sent shockwaves around the world. He was known for his hawkish foreign policy and a signature economic strategy that popularly came to be known as “Abenomics”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I have caused [the family] three and a half years of suffering… I have no excuse,” Yamagami told the court on Thursday, according to local media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He reportedly told investigators he attacked Abe because he blamed the ex-prime minister for allegedly promoting the Unification Church, which Yamagami said had bankrupted his mother and the wider family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yamagami’s allegations prompted investigations into the Unification Church, which started in South Korea and is known for its mass weddings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March this year, a Tokyo court ordered the church to disband<\/a> – a ruling that the church said it would “fight to the end”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Unification Church has drawn controversy even before Abe’s assassination, for teaching that marriage is central to spiritual salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abe’s grandfather Nobusuke Kishi, who was also Japan’s prime minister, was known to have been close to the Unification Church because of its anti-communist nature. Abe himself had spoken at events related to the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a hearing last month, prosecutors read out a statement from Abe’s widow in which she wrote: “The sorrow of losing a husband will not be relieved.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC: The man accused of assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has apologised to the ex-leader’s family for the first time. Tetsuya Yamagami, who earlier pleaded guilty to murder, told the court on Thursday that he felt “deeply sorry” towards Abe’s widow, Akie. Yamagami used a homemade gun to shoot Abe during a political campaign event in the western city of Nara on 8 July 2022. He died in the hospital on the same day. Abe’s death sent shockwaves around the world. He was known for his hawkish foreign policy and a signature economic strategy that popularly came to be… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52887,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52884\/revisions\/52887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}