BREAKING: Japan’s national police chief says he will resign to take responsibility over the assassination of former leader Shinzo Abe last month.
Abe sent a video message last year to a group affiliated with the church, which experts say may have infuriated the shooting suspect.
Abe’s family paid tribute to him in a private Buddhist ritual Thursday marking the 49th day of his assassination. In Nara, prefectural police chief Tomoaki Onizuka also expressed his intention to step down over Abe’s assassination. The church, which was founded in South Korea in 1954 and came to Japan a decade later, has built close ties with a host of conservative lawmakers, many of them members of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party on their shared interests of anti-communism.
Since the 1980s, the church has faced accusations of problematic recruiting and religious sales in Japan, and the governing party’s church ties have sent support ratings of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet into a nosedive even after its
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