Spectacles

Shinzo Abe was assassinated. Now, Japan hates him. (1x4)

Data de estreia: Set 27, 2022

He assassinated Japan’s most successful politician ever. But now, he seems to have won over public opinion. What happened? — Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/spectaclesmedia Sources and Attributions: https://www.spectacles.news/mini-doc-japan/ — On July 8, 2022, in Nara, Japan, Shinzo Abe was shot twice with a homemade shotgun by Tetsuya Yamagami. Despite Abe’s towering status in Japanese politics — a former prime minister, and Japan’s longest serving ever — Yamagami declared his motive personal rather than political — a grudge against the Unification Church. The catch? Abe wasn’t even a member. And yet, the public seems to have been convinced by Yamagami. Featuring mass weddings, Richard Nixon, Donald Trump, the bizarre theology of Sun-Myung Moon, his cultists the Moonies, and so much more, this is the story of the Unification Church, and it has a lot to teach us about how to balance the separation of church and state.