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Police found multiple homemade guns similar to the one used in Friday’s attack during a search of Yamagami’s apartment in Nara, adding that he appeared to have used online sources as a guide to making them. His mother had made a “huge” donation to the group, leaving the family struggling to survive, he reportedly told police, adding that he had initially intended to kill the group’s leader in Japan but later targeted Abe. Yamagami, 41, also admitted test-firing homemade guns at a facility connected to the group, according to media, but the location and nature of the test was not immediately clear. Police have declined to reveal the group’s name. Its members are colloquially known as “Moonies” after its founder, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Some Japanese media outlets have named the group as the Unification Church, which was founded in South Korea in 1954. The suspect in Abe’s killing, Tetsuya Yamagami, has said that he targeted the politician because he believed he had connections to a religious group he blamed for bankrupting his mother. Media reports said a public memorial would be held at a later date.

“We will do everything we can to help our friends carry the burden of this loss,” he added, calling Abe “a man of vision with the ability to realise that vision”, after a meeting with Kishida.Ī wake will be held for Abe on Monday evening at Zojoji, a large Buddhist temple in central Tokyo, followed by a private funeral on Tuesday at the same venue. At 52% turnout was slightly up from three years earlier – a trend some analysts attributed to Abe’s death – but the coalition’s victory had been expected before he was killed.īlinken, who had been in Bali attending a G20 meeting, said he had flown to Japan because “we’re friends, and when one friend is hurting, the other friend shows up”.Ībe, he said, “did more than anyone to elevate the relationship between the United States and Japan to new heights”.