It is reported that Tetsuya Yamagami, who murdered former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, stated that he decided to commit the crime after seeing Abe sending a video message to the religion his mother was missing.
Today (10th), Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun reported that Yamagami mentioned the name of a specific religious group in a police investigation and stated, "My mother is a believer and went bankrupt by donating a large amount of money." reported.
Yamagami said he initially aimed at the leader of the religious group, but when access became difficult, he believed that "Abe spread this religion in Japan" and changed the target of the murder to Abe.
He explained that the reason for the death of Abe was "not because of a grudge against [Abe's] political creed," he said.
According to Yomiuri, the group is a religion that originated abroad, not in Japan, and there are videos of Abe's video message sent to the event of a private activist group established by the group's representatives on the Internet.
According to the Asahi Shimbun, Yamagami's father ran a construction company, but when Yamagami died suddenly at a young age, her mother took over the company.
Afterwards, her mother was declared bankrupt in 2002 and her mother's construction company also closed in 2009.