In a twisted turn of events, the man who killed former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is being fawned over as a folk hero by scores of supporters across the country.
TOKYO, Japan–Few would have imagined that when former Japanese
was assassinated in public with a handmade shotgun, the man who killed him would be perceived as something of a folk hero by adoring fans across the country.was a large feature on the cult of hero worship for Tetsuya Yamagami, the 42-year-old man who shot Abe on July 8. There are now swooning internet fans known as “Yamagami Girls” and a surprising outpouring of sympathy for him. Cash, gifts and food have been sent to him in jail from supporters across the nation.
The headline in garish gold letters doesn’t pull any punches: “The man who attacked Abe, [Tetsuya] Yamagami is now worshiped. This god of the lower classes of Japan evokes sympathy—[from those who have also known] poverty, religion, loneliness, [and had] poisonous parents.”claimed that his real intent was to call attention to the deep ties between Abe’s party, the Liberal Democratic Party , and the Unification Church–a South Korean Christian cult. It appears he has wildly succeeded.
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