Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assassinated

[A380]

So you think in the coming days the risk assessment won’t be looked at and reviewed for the future?
It’s a bit weird that everyone on an Internet forum has decided that it was obviously ok.

Of course it will be reviewed.

Are you suggesting Urban isn’t the place for post contact debriefs.

“For the purposes of this investigation you are ‘Poster F’…”

 

[JimW]

Evacuated the neighbours after searching his home as suspected explosives, and apparently some other versions of his home made gun, was just reading. He told police Abe was linked to an organisation he was opposed to but no detail as to what or how, not sure if that's the conspiracy thing.

 

[A380]

Only if they've learnt nothing from cowboy movies, although with only six gun thingies in the country I suppose they might have their eye off the ball.

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Nah, they train entirely using Han Solo’s cantina scene . So now they can’t shoot first…

 

[emanymton]

Nah, they train entirely using Han Solo’s cantina scene . So now they can’t shoot first…

No they do shoot first then later revise and to say they didn't honest.

 

[A380]

No they do shoot first then later revise and to say they didn't honest.

(((((Greedo)))))

 

[tonysingh]

(((((Greedo)))))

#justice4Greedo

 

[Magnus McGinty]

If Abe had been struck by lightning would you think the risk assessment had been fucked up?

He wasn’t struck by lightening. Jesus, you’re saying you understand risk assessments and then say that? I hope you’re not actually being paid for it.

 

[weltweit]

Grim story

And despite there not being many guns in Japan, this individual made their own gun.
Madman must have been motivated.

 

[platinumsage]

Wasn't for political reasons apparently, but the assassin thought his target was a member of an unspecified religious group

 

[bellaozzydog]

And true to type American Twitter are more fascinated in the homemade gun than the assassination

 

[A380]

Wasn't for political reasons apparently, but the assassin thought his target was a member of an unspecified religious group

Sadly that's quite big in Japan...

 

[Artaxerxes]

Sadly that's quite big in Japan...

Even by mass murdering lone lunatic standards Japanese ones tend to be super fucking weird.

 

[Flavour]

Well I for one think this is alright, as news stories go

 

[frogwoman]

安倍元首相銃撃 容疑者「特定の団体に恨み」計画的犯行か | NHK

【NHK】安倍元総理大臣が奈良市で演説中に銃で撃たれ死亡した事件で、逮捕された容疑者が、「特定の団体に恨みがあり、元総理がこの団体…

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Did a Google translate on this article. Apparently the killer had nothing against Abe politics but was angry because his mother got mixed up in a religious group he was involved in and made a large donation.

Anyone know what group he could be talking about? krtek a houby etc

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Fingers crossed Blair os next

 

[ddraig]

Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has died in hospital after he was shot at a political campaign event. Security officials tackled the gunman at the scene following the assasination. The 41-year-old suspect named as Tetsuya Yamagami, admitted shooting Abe with a homemade gun.

from Week in pictures: 2 - 8 July 2022

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Sorry to be flippant (and I ask this in a thread where others are expressing glee at the man's death), but was it even fucking raining?

 

[JimW]

Sorry to be flippant (and I ask this in a thread where others are expressing glee at the man's death), but was it even fucking raining?

Maybe showers due and people use them as parasols too?
Read the home made gun might have escaped attention as looking like camera kit and the killer did pretend to be taking pics first to edge his way into position.

 

[Lurdan]

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Did a Google translate on this article. Apparently the killer had nothing against Abe politics but was angry because his mother got mixed up in a religious group he was involved in and made a large donation.

Anyone know what group he could be talking about? krtek a houby etc

Interesting twitter thread here which includes this:

As the thread points out however the Moonies aren't the only religious group supporting elements of the coalition government.

I have no idea about any of this but this seems to be what internet speculation is focussing on.

 

[stdP]

Sorry to be flippant (and I ask this in a thread where others are expressing glee at the man's death), but was it even fucking raining?

Japan is quite astonishingly damp and humid, and umbrella usage is very common. London gets an average of 36mm of rain in July, and 562mm a year. Nara, where Abe was shot, gets 173mm in July and 1365mm annually.

 

[platinumsage]

It’s women holding them in that photo so it‘ll be for sun protection rather than rain.

 

[krtek a houby]

There's a fair few cults in Japan, Abe could well have had financial connections with one or more of them. Honestly, that's guesswork, though.

ETA: there's also the question of Nippon Kaigi, the far right organisation that casts a long shadow over the Abe administration. Good article here from a few years back

Abe’s Japan Is a Racist, Patriarchal Dream

What can tell ye, is umbrellas in the sun is a thing. Especially when it's splitting the stones out there.

 

[krtek a houby]

Fingers crossed Blair os next

Wrong thread, tough guy.

 

[MrCurry]

安倍元首相銃撃 容疑者「特定の団体に恨み」計画的犯行か | NHK

【NHK】安倍元総理大臣が奈良市で演説中に銃で撃たれ死亡した事件で、逮捕された容疑者が、「特定の団体に恨みがあり、元総理がこの団体…

www3.nhk.or.jp

Did a Google translate on this article. Apparently the killer had nothing against Abe politics but was angry because his mother got mixed up in a religious group he was involved in and made a large donation.

Anyone know what group he could be talking about? krtek a houby etc

The exploitation of the poor by super rich people using religion as a means to separate them from their meagre savings - how very American!

 

[SpookyFrank]

If it's true that man supported a cult and has got shot as a result, I'm OK with that tbh.

 

[krtek a houby]

If it's true that man supported a cult and has got shot as a result, I'm OK with that tbh.

Would have preferred to see him get done for the schools and land scandal, among other things.

He'll never face prison time now.

 

[SpookyFrank]

He'll never face prison time now.

Wasn't likely to anyway.

 

[Cid]

Interesting twitter thread here which includes this:

As the thread points out however the Moonies aren't the only religious group supporting elements of the coalition government.

I have no idea about any of this but this seems to be what internet speculation is focussing on.

Yeah that guy seems to have a decent handle on things. Quick check - lecturer at Kanda international, studies nationalist politics and has written a few papers on that. Probably worth keeping an eye on... my instinct was 'why the fuck would a Japanese nationalist have links to a Korean cult?'. But that's a bad take... Moonies are also very heavily focussed on pushing their message in the US and Japan, and their deep anti-communism gives them traction with nationalists in those countries.

Here's that thread unwrapped:

Thread by @mrjeffu on Thread Reader App

@mrjeffu: More reports about the assassin's motivations, with more vague wording about a "certain group" (特定の団体) that he hated and associated with Abe. This is even more vague than earlier reports that suggested it w...…

threadreaderapp.com

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Wrong thread, tough guy.

Fuck off, bootlicker.

 

[frogwoman]