The trial of Tetsuya Yamagami — the man who assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — has begun in Japan. But this case is about more than guilt or innocence.

It exposed disturbing ties between Japan’s ruling party and a controversial church, triggered public sympathy for the killer and forced the country to confront deeper questions about justice, trauma and political power.

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Chapters

00:00 – Intro

00:45 – The assassination of Shinzo Abe

02:10 – Who is Tetsuya Yamagami?

04:30 – Sympathy and the “Yamagami Girls”

06:40 – Unification Church and LDP ties

08:55 – What the trial means for Japan

10:12 – Outro

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