The Police said that the man was dissatisfied with Shinzo Abe's leadership.
It's probably not right wing terrorism, because they usually just go after random people.
But this is unlikely coming from the left because Abe wasn't in office anymore. (Abe resigned from office in 2020 for health reasons)
"Abenomics" was shit:
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/japan-the-failure-of-abenomics/ https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/01/27/abenomics-an-update/ https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/japans-lost-decades-unpacked-and-repacked/and shooting the guy while he held office might have made some sense as a motive, but 2 years after why bother ?
My guess is a private hitman, hired by either corporate or mafia, which in Japan has a lot of overlap.
Maybe. Maybe he was a mentally unwell person manipulated by greater forces get to rid of Abe. Most likely he was just a man with problems who sought out a more powerful individual to vent his frustrations at.
Wasn't it something religious?
>>2621972I believe he was angry at Abe for having connections to the Unification Church. The shooters mother gave a lot of money to the church and he was angry about that. She seems to put the family into economic difficulties because of her donations. They were apparently fairly well off but ended having to rely on of one her brothers for financial support. He had a brother that was also very ill at one point who killed himself. I think the shooters also killed himself.
>>2621975*shooters father killed himself
>>2621916>Abe wasn't in office anymore. >2 years after why botherHe was still active with various think tanks and was generally emblematic of a lot of life ruining shit happening over there.
>>2621975That too