Japan's " Yomiuri Shimbun " quoted relevant sources on the 13th as saying that the mother of Tetsuya Yamama, who assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, had donated more than 100 million yen to the "Unification Church" and sold it for this purpose. The family's property and land were eventually declared bankrupt.
"The Yomiuri Shimbun" stated that police investigators have obtained the above testimony and judged that his mother's behavior may have made Tetsuya Yamama strongly dissatisfied.
Investigators said that Tetsuya Yamama’s mother joined the “Unification Church” in 1998. In June 1999, in order to donate money to the "Unification Church", she not only sold the land inherited from Tetsuya Yamama's grandfather, but also sold a single-family house in Nara where she lived with her three children. In 2002, Tetsuya Yamama's mother was declared bankrupt, which investigators believed was due to her large donations to the Unification Church.
According to Japanese media reports, Tetsuya Yamama graduated from high school in 1999 and joined the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in 2002. In 1999, Tetsuya Yamama’s mother sold the house where her family lived, and in 2002, she was sentenced to bankruptcy.
reported that Tetsuya Yamama confirmed to investigators: "My mother was absorbed into the Unification Church as a believer and sold her relatives' land without authorization, and the family's life became a mess."
"The Yomiuri Shimbun" stated, " The Unification Church responded by saying that the organization would not announce the specific amount donated by Tetsuya Yamama’s mother.
