Tetsuya Yamagami, who shot Abe with an improvised weapon on Friday, told police he believed the former leader had ties to the Unification Church, a South Korean group also known as the Moonies. If reports in the Japanese media are to be confirmed, then the country’s most devastating political assassination since World War II was over nothing more important than a family feud over religion. Japanese newspapers and television stations reported anonymous police reports saying Yamagami, 41, confessed to planning
