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I first saw it on the Telegram app, which is usually one of the first things I check which mainly gives updates on the Ukraine situation.
2022 has really been one thing after another, of tragic and devastating levels, and that's saying a lot after everything we went through the previous two years.
I was just entering my teens in 1968, with the Vietnam War and civil rights protest and riots, as well as the assassinations of RFK and MLK. Disturbing times. And I’m getting deja vu.
India is also going in a day of mourning tomorrow for Abe which is beyond ... random. I mean, what? Abe was very popular in Taiwan but no one would ever suggest mourning him. It's not like he was Nelson Mandela. I guess Japan really is very well-loved huh. https://twitter.com/melissakchan/sta...72284851978242
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Homemade shotgun. Japan has very strict gun laws. According to news reports it wasn’t political but some kind of personal grudge. I recall several years ago a prominent politician was attacked and killed with a samurai sword.
Rallies in Japan protest push to amend pacifist constitution
May 3, 2022
Turning over to Japan now,... as people across the country on Tuesday protested the government's plan to amend its pacifist constitution.
The demonstrations took place on Japan's Constitution Memorial Day. A rally in Tokyo was attended by 15-thousand people... and other protests were also held in Osaka, Hokkaido, and Hyogo Prefecture.
Participants said that due to Japan's previous wars, the country shouldn't have an army.
They also spoke out against the government's plan to increase military spending by around 38.4-billion U.S. dollars.
Meanwhile, a recent survey of 3,000 people by local Japanese outlet Yomuiri Shimbun found that 6 out of 10 respondents support the constitutional amendment.
I also think China was behind this in some way. He supported a separate Taiwan and was vocal about China’s takeover of so many small islands in the South China Sea.
CNN had a list of the condolences coming in from other nations and so far, nothing from China.
Yet so far, nothing from the US either. But then I look at Biden’s team and they’re probably used to sleeping late like their boss.
Yes, because CNN is the epitome of reputable news.
Look at the time stamp buddy.
I've read some early reports that the assassin was the son of a woman who bankrupted her family by donating all of their money to the Unification Church.
Apparently Abe was tied somehow to the Unification Church, if not as a member then as someone sympathetic to it or otherwise entangled with it.
The assassin wanted to target church leadership but considered that task too difficult so instead he decided to target a prominent politician associated with the church.
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