Imagine assassinating a guy, telling people your reasons, and people actually overwhelming go "You know what, you're right" and hate the guy and the people you wanted revenge on. Most successful assassination in history.
There's a big drawback on the assassination Under Japanese law dieing makes all charges against him disappearing, he was under heavy corruption investigations His death means that his family will never have to give back anything because he can't be found guilty anymore
@@KaotikBOOOwhich usually means that the assassin was probably working with Abe to clear his Family. In Japan unlike in the West, police can often use the excuse of investigating a family member to open investigations to other members of the same family. With Abe dead, the cops can’t continue with any investigations, as you say.
I used to live in that neighborhood. He was assassinated right outside the building where my old doctor’s office is located. It was such a bizarre feeling turning on news and recognizing everything in the background.
I get the same feeling seeing an area I know on the news. I think it might that you think everything on the news is far away and you subconsciously disaccosiate it with reality. But when you see a place you know, everything suddenly gets real. I felt the same seeing frequent spots I have visited all my life be the backdrop in a breif gang fued.
@@ecoideazventures6417 Yes. That's the part of this essay that I would have loved to get investigated deeper. My gut feeling tells me that, ever since the sarin attack in the Tokyo subway, most people in Japan feel extremely uncomfortable about zealous religious groups of any sort. I suspect the ties between LDP and the moonies must have been present in popular consciousness but never expressed publicly because of Japanese cultural tendency to keep things hush hush to the last moment. And that last moment seems to have been this assassination. That's the only explanation I can fathom that explains such an intense reversal of opinion from outrage about a public murder to "I can relate to this revolt against a corrupt figure" or "Abe had it coming", whatever true feelings are hidden behind that poll result.
A serial was filmed on the street I live on. It was bizarre to see my house on TV. I never got to see the acting in person sadly, cuz it was always during school hours
I live in Japan. Yes, the assassination did bring the wrath of the Japanese people on the Unification Church, but it is not so clear to me that it has resulted in an increase in hatred for Abe. Before his death Abe was liked by some, and strongly disliked by those who saw him to be corrupt. I don't know that his death changed those feelings much in the long run.
some out of touch campaign for post bubble Japan(2000 onward) that felt... out of touch. You would think that 'Cool Japan' program would've boosted foreigner's investments in Japan, but when its program sent out to many 3rd world countries, it tend to look more like replacing domestic Japanese workers with cheap foreign labors, where first, IF the laborer can afford to go strange, unknown foreign paths with own/family money, usually as a whole bet in early age study, like high school onwards. I was looking into some Japan conventions in Indonesia back in 2010-2015, you have had to be born in the high connected family to afford what the flyers were about, e.g. Study, work, events, etc., its a waste of money on Japan's behalf, and its not for most or even half of anyone in the middle class 'cause no one can afford it. Could've invested in their own industry, don't you think? pay their own countrymen better, send out more complete exports(which the Japanese did able to snuck behind most corrupt distribution/customs chain for fairer price)
yeah people overestimated his popularity in Japan, he was anti union and very fiercely pro military, an easy way to make some people really angry at you
@@maniswolftoman I'm fine had it worked out for even just 30-50%, but Japan also has many overseas, localized industrial branches that Japan itself had no natural resource of manufacturing in their own land. They needn't importing labor that still is being enticed by Japan's generally higher minimum wage(and rights policies that is also still better protected than the factories they built in other countries) Those old Japanese companies building manufacture plants overseas were pioneers being mostly considerate of the locals, they weren't turned into sweatshop workers when quite the expertise were also handed down; Its rather sad that such creative relation were gone as any government-backable option.
How bad do you have to be that when a person assassinates one of your biggest supporters, the entire nation goes, "You know what? That assassin had a pretty good point."
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 you mean he was their asset. They have a habit of cleaning house when their assets are no longer useful to them or become a liability. Look at David Ferriere and Lee Harvey Oswald.
Nice video, just shame it's a bit incomplete. It would have been good to make it 10-20 seconds longer and mention how Shinzo Abe wasn't the original target of assassination. The assassin was going to the church for months, looking for an opportunity to assassinate its leaders, which didn't work out and then he found out about the politic connections. He also considered making bombs, but didn't want to affect innocent people,.. That's the part of what makes this sad event more understandable.
It's an uninformed guy's opinion. I doubt he knew that Abe wasn't the target. Just look at the comment section. Pretty much everyone in Japan is saying "Nah they don't all hate shinzo" Guy wants clicks so he made a cult vid about stuff he didnt know about.
@@deadseriouslymovingHe also posted a reply saying they "couldn't fit it in", when it literally takes zero extra effort to add in that information to the narration.
this guy could have resorted to cursing his targets to their death by channeling his negative emotions as a 'prayer' and released himself from them negative emotions so that some spirit could carry out his will..
I don't think the author of the video lets things like reality get in his way...without even knowing what you mentioned in your comment, the narrative rubbed me the wrong way. Could have been the carefully styled NPR-Cadence™, or how he early on admits Abe had no connection to the church, yet then makes the crux of the video how Abe and the church were somehow connected...came off to me like the rantings of yet another angry leftist atheist trying to project their issues on others
8:18 This is an amazing video but i do want to mention an important point- his original target was Moon's widow, but her security detail was way too strong, and her movements were too difficult to track- the former prime minister of Japan was actually an easier target, so he settled for Abe over her.
@@spectacles-dm You know you can just make the video longer right? You can "fit in" anything you want to fit in, youtube hasn't put limits on video length for like a decade now.
@@Toksyuryel This is infotainment. Holding content creators to a higher standard is much less possible than adjusting your expectations, just like on the history channel.
I went to a high school owned by the Unification Church. It was hard seeing my friends slowly get brainwashed and lose years of their lives to the cult. Many never finished schooling in favor of doing “missionary” work, where they recruit new members and gather money for the cult, or marry early through the cult’s own version of arranged marriage. I was only half-way through college when half of my classmates from high school who were part of the cult were already married or engaged. I’m glad this is getting more attention and I hope more countries and people follow-suit in condemning this cult.
Sounds terrible, but was it voluntary? Were your friends FORCED to be part of the cult? Or they joined on their own will/stupidity? If it was voluntary, then it's light-years better and morally superior than the socialism Abe's murderer defended, because socialism is based and sustained by COERCION, since it never works and ends in dictatorships to avoid people from rebelling.
this is happening in brazil with a certain protestant chruches. with a much higher success rate since 90% of brazilians are christians, so almost nobody calls it a cult, but they prey like vultures on very vulnerable people, it's bizarre. oh they are also 100% aligned with right-wing conservative politics, of course. which is funny because the bible is against a lot of stuff the right-wing preaches. my mom is protestant and sometimes she does charity work with her church, like feeding the homeless and helping poor people getting a house and a job, but she's slowly getting involved with an infamous billionaire church and sometimes i fear that they're gonna "get" her.
When I was little, my caretaker (Japanese) was pulled into this cult. Most of what my parents paid for her services, went to the cult. It's disgusting how this "religion", rather a disguise for a greedy cult based on manipulation, drains and makes their followers miserable. When I was 13, I saw her in a supermarket. I asked her why she was in this cult, and she took offense to it and left. That's the last time I ever saw her.
@@erocktherockjohnson5169Well maybe she was. That's why she got offended because OP called it a 'cult' and not a 'church' (I mean, it'd make sense if OP really called it a 'cult'. If not, then I don't know why she got mad. Maybe OP sounded aggresive. Or she felt attacked or accused🤷♂️)
In a land where access to guns is extremely rare, the shooting and dedication of the shooter to make his own gun and throw his life away in such a public manner (thats become common in america) was a genuine alarm to the japanese people to pay attention that something was wrong here and listen
@@bigloler99lel42I fail to see how easier access to guns is going to solve gun violence. Gun violence is more than just "They can get again with it" because they can't. They will get arrested more often than not. It's a symptom of another problem. What you're proposing is also that citizens go ahead and uphold the law themselves. There's a reason why we have a dedicated police force to do the job instead. Sure you can make an argument that more gun acces can help get the shooter to stop earlier by killing them, but that assumes that: A. Enough people carry guns around to be able to do that B. That the shooter's aim is accurate enough to shoot the shooter and no something else like a brick wall or a police officer C. That gun violence deaths from the increased gun incidents don't exceed gun deaths from before gun access is increased A lot of big assumptions. People don't just carry big guns for the same reason why people don't wear armor all the time: It's heavy, bulky, and useless most of the time. There's also a reason why the military requires aiming training. So that its soldiers don't hit the wrong thing, or not hit anything. Because it's easier to say to shoot someone than it is to actually shoot them. Any idea can seem good at first glance. It's only when you look at the details that you start realizing how bad of an idea it is.
I'd heard plenty about the Moonies and their wild antics, but never that madness with Nixon. The craziest part is Nixon heard about it and was like "Oh they are praying for me! Sounds like my type of people, I should invite them to the White House."
@@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944 It's what every politician does. The difference is that the US President is so powerful that it has worldwide repercussions, thus people cry about them, ignoring how their own do the same exact thing.
@@stephenjenkins7971 Sorry, but as far as I know that is complete bullshit! The President of my country and most countries near it don't sponsor or hang out with cults. Most world leaders don't. Not all countries are like the chunky USA. You know that Moonies were at the beginning and maybe even to this day funded by the CIA right? The USA is a nation of theft, dishonor, and apparently a cult sponsor. There are certainly other countries that sponsored at least one cult, but the USA will sponsor anyone who they could use as sledge hammer against their enemies. Most nations don't do that.
In Japan, people here do not often speak their mind. They sit on it, and sometimes people explode in anger. Things like this are rare. This murder only let people share a part of their bottled up rage against the korean cult and its massive influence in the LDP governement in Japan. This mans family is definitely not the first one to be financially ruined by the cult.
Can confirm with an exchange teacher we had here in Mexico, she just reached a limit and started screaming at students about her grievances, one even cried that day, needless to say she resigned and went back to japan quickly
My mother is Japanese. It kind of hurts to watch happen. I really wish it wasn't like this. It's an extremely frustrating social pattern. Things need to change for things... to change.
How the fuck did Koreans got so much foothold in JAPAN like damn Japanese don't even that level of guilt unlike wypipo but still a bunch of KOREANS were able to guilt trip and get that paper from that Gotta respect the hustle though
@@Brian-tn4cdGood. Entitled Europeans especially in Mexico should follow her lead. Some Mexicans already fed up with foreigners thinking they can disrespect and boss Mexicans around in their country/North American continent. Soon the rest of Mexicans will follow suit if they keep on stirring the bees nest. Being tolerant can only last so much.
Eito Suzuki who is very dedicated in uncovering the dark side of cults in Japan has written several books about this topic. The one specifically analyzing the attacker is very comprehensible and remains largely neutral. It would be very valuable if his books got localized from Japanese to English, so non-Japanese can have more in-depth understanding of this event, the church and the attacker.
@@Thor-Orion Translating is a skill, you aren't just automatically able to do it well because you understand both languages, and it's not an easy one. Suggesting someone translate a book just because they do is really silly.
I live in Kobe, Japan. I realize my comment is anecdotal, but I feel like Spectacles is WILDLY overstating the effect of the assassination. The drop in Abe's approval rating (posthumous) is likely a residual effect of distaste for "Abenomics." (Keep in mind his next two successors are towing his line.) Of the hundreds of Japanese I know and work with, NOBODY has expressed gratitude over the assassination. To the author of this video, it appears that correlation equals causation, even without any proof.
@@evanceaicovschi7230 Since Japan is a very atheistic country, and less than 2% are religious in the traditional sense if ancestral worship is not counted, there is prone to be misconceptions, especially when Christianity is both rare and a foreign concept. One notable exception is Taro Aso, an infleuntial leader of the LDP, who is Catholic. It sort of shows how Christianity is kind of seen as an elite-establishment religion that is uncommon among the common people.
I mean, any economic reform program isn't going to popular in Japan because things would have to get a lot worse before they get better (e.g., zombie corporations, shrinking workforce, etc.). Plus, Abenomics had structural reform which wasn't ever implemented.
I don't think the assassination triggers the reaction, it just allowed discourse and people that didn't like him felt it was a good time to bring up their own grudges.
I think it might also be worth to consider that Japan is really collectivist. So when someone is in power ppl act in favour no matter thier own oppinion to support collective unity. But once that perception gets challanged and ppl become aware that thier own oppinions are not that much of an outside view. That support might collapse quickly.
its also bizzare when you consider Abe’s grandfather and who he was, Nosubuke Kishi. The monster of manchuria, whose rule over the puppet empire of manchuria killed many many natives during Japanese role, for him to become a well known bureaucrat and member of the LDP post war.
Sadly, stories like that were the norm. Most Japanese war criminals were rehabilitated by the USA after WW2 in return for their help in "anticommunist efforts". Shiro Ishii, the commander of the infamous Unit 731, got to live out his days in peace; when he should've been flayed alive and tossed in a vat of saltwater.
@@gaiusjuliuspleaser its even funnier when you find out that the american inspired “democracy” of Japan has had the same party in power for decades, with many people in Abe’s cabinet being involved with Nippon Kaigi, a very reactionary organisation.
@@ricardofan2733more things to think about, Japan's so called "democracy" was forced. Their constitution was basically written by a foreign power (USA) and they were forced to sign it.
@@ardel-4964 Of course it was forced, they moved from near-totalitarianism under an Emperor who was the head of the state religion. This is like the King Charles telling people that he is descended from God and from this point, you will worship him. What else would you suggest this be replaced with? No nation lives under democracy lmao. The LDP in Japan have been in party since 1952, and across many democracies there's only ever two parties who win, parties that never do anything differently to the other lol.
Looking at family history is not a fair way of judging someone though. Since if you look it that way, a lot of Germans have grandfathers in the SS. Not saying that Abe is a good person, He is one of the revisionist and one of the people that keeps going into Yasukuni Shrine, but family history is not a fair way of judgement.
Yeah I honestly am surprised that this event wasn't memed more. This dude built a gun out of duct tape and toilet paper tubes and smoked one of the 21st century's most significant political figures.
After hearing about how Abe denied the Rape of Nanjing and Japan’s sexual enslavement of 50,000 - 200,000 women, I honestly find it kinda hard to react to his death with anything more than ‘meh’.
As a Japanese, I also agree. "Maybe the elders should be left to die... and younglings should fuck like rabbits?" Though, in general, I deeply dislike any elder in power. Mature, surely, but anyone older than 50 may not be apt to run a country.
Many comfort women were also ethnic Japanese. I wonder shouldn’t the Yasukuni Shrine also enshrine those women in “service” of the Imperial military? I mean they’re willing to loop in and honor the war criminals but not a single thought about those women aka the real victims?
So ... big factual error at 11:00 where the author states that it's "technically illegal for religious organizations to endorse political candidates" in the US. Actually, it's perfectly legal; you just forfeit your tax-exempt status if you do so.
As a Japanese person, I wouldn't say all of Japan hates him. A lot of conservatives tend to portray him as a bit of a martyr, while liberals point out things he did or defended that conservatives tend to kind of ignore. It's really a mixed bag, I would also say a lot of people just don't really dwell on it, just post some condolences online maybe and move on.
@@skyereave9454 i'm not Japanese but have read quite a bit about Japanese politics so take this for what you will, from what i understand it's somewhat similar to America in that liberals in Japan are really more centrist-liberal, and not in any fashion leftist/left wing as liberals are often described by conservatives. liberals in both the US and Japan are just the leftwing of the conservatives and the conservatives the right wing of the liberals, they exist in a very narrow band of the political spectrum and seem to mostly just disagree on social issues. the Liberal Democratic Party or LDP (despite it's name it's a conservative political party) that Abe was a part of and that is and has been the overwhelmingly dominant party in Japan (so much so that Japan is considered a sort of de facto one party state) since 1955 is sort of like their version of the US Republicans, they're a rightwing Japanese Nationalist party, though many of their policies are closer to America's Democrats. for example they are aiming to be carbon neutral by 2050 through renewable energies and nuclear energy, are proponents of wealth redistribution through higher taxes to pay for social needs, and are willing to give tax breaks to companies that will raise wages. all those are things the Republicans in the US are mostly against. but they also deny Japanese war crimes from their Imperial days and WWII, are against same sex marriage, are highly nationalist, and they want to expand the JSDF with many wanting to have a full fledged military again. all those align with more traditionally conservative ideals. then you have the CDP which are the second largest party in Japan but and are kinda like their version of the US Democrats. they want to scale back nuclear power and focus more on renewables, are pro LGBTQ rights, want more welfare for low income families, want greater wealth redistribution than the LDP does, and have tried to make *some* amends for the crimes of Japanese Imperialism. many LDP members and supporters would probably be closer to someone like Bernie Sanders in the US than say Joe Biden. there are other both conservative and liberal, and even leftist parties, but they wield no real power. for example, the Japanese Communist Party has seats in their House of Representatives but it's less than 10% of the assembly, which basically means they can't pass any of their proposed legislation. a lot of the people what would be described as liberals in the US would be more like democratic socialists in Japan, while people described as conservative in the US would fit in pretty well with Japanese conservatives.
Ok but your video didn't actually explain hatred for Abe, why so many who previously favored him were quick to overturn their support. The video kind of just kind of digressed into a focus on the church and not the premise I expected from the title.
It's not that public opinion on Abe "changed" from like to dislike It's that media laws and unspoken decorum in Japan silence criticism. Once people felt it was OK to speak out, those who were always angry simply came out of the woods
@@burgundian_system every Japanese politician is a war crime denier, it's career suicide to acknowledge anything bad that japan did in ww2. Not saying this to excuse Abe. From what I've read, his apologia was outrageous - including trying to exonerate his Class A War Criminal grandfather (who became prime minister of japan in 1957 with US support)
It's hard not to sympathize with a man who just sets out to eliminate the person that he deems to have ruined his whole family and his life. He saw through the corrupt nature of Abe. When the reports first came out, everyone just dunked on Yamagami for being a psychopath and Abe having poor security. But the reality the situation is far more complex. Yamagami did not harm anyone else, he did not harm innocent people, he only harmed the not so innocent.😢😢😢😢
only one major shame....didn't catch on and become a trend, lots of "world leaders" out there who don't reallyyyyyyyyy need to continue existing. im saddened that likely very few will understand how to and actually make a gun like that to use it for a good reason, unfortunate because there's books and stuff online that make homemade guns easier to make than most think.
@@jamesrustle7536While Japan is not a socialist nation, the Japanese Communist Party or Kyousantou is the most active self denominated communist party in the world outside of a socialist nation. Although their ideology is a lot less radical nowadays, being closer to social democracy instead.
@@duskpede5146 technically in the sense that Japan actually didn't become communist. Also most communist parties in Japan are more centre left these days
@@angelusvastator1297 well no one disagree's that japan didn't become communist. but that wasn't really to do with the individual power struggles of post ww2 politics, but more because 1. the soviets did not occupy any part of japan so no communist puppet got set up. plus the US would never allow japan to flip red 2. after years of fascism (and before that, liberal democracy) communism never really became a serious part of japanese politics. and because japan lacks unions a socialist party wouldn't have much support, financial or not, from institutions. which also rules out the possibility of revolution 3. and thirdly, democratic socialism never works. its like you said that the socialist parties are all but centre left now. except thats the story of every socialist party will eventually become a centre left party as they become more prominent. its just the way things always go so yeah no, japan was never becoming communist assassination or no assassination
@@duskpede5146 You might never know. China and Vietnam were once countries under massive US influence along with anti-communist extremists that liked to purge their opponents left and right. And yet they're communist. Even if they didn't, dude could easily make the general population sympathetic to communism based on his appeal to anti-US military influence, pan Asianism (he allied with CCP China) etc.
The fact that people can be dangerous is the one thing keeping rulers from abusing all of us. Some might argue that it's laws or founding principles, but really it's that people have an expectation to be treated justly. Take that away, and it's honestly pretty fair that the ones on top are removed by any means.
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Yeah, youtube does that a lot they don't want you linking off youtube. You should integrate them in the video, it's not that difficult. I want to note for the record that the seperation in the US is the separation of religion from control of the state, not that religion has no say in state. It's very clear from Jefferson and the constitution this is the case.
should've clarified that he wasn't a member like he said, but he certainly had connections with it, Which is what drove the assassin to target him, you are doing what i think is "flim flam" which is saying something is not true, but then saying it is true later on but not directly "Even though he is not a member" then later on "Which drove the party (Shinzo Abe's party) to cut all ties/connections to it (The Unification church), The party he was leader of."
most murder can be summed up as "hate" crime because you aren't killing someone you love, obviously you killed them because some ill will, it comes down to people suck and some can't move past that, and remember people are innocent, but treasure makes them guilty, meaning your luck is also your misfortune via jealousy from others. in the end its hatred, jealousy, desperation, desire, loss, to experience and move these is human nature.
The key question regarding the Moonies is: did they assert their goals and achieve popularity by "playing the system", or were they at the right place at the right time to be useful to the system and thus were "allowed" to succeed? The answer is probably that it was a bit of both, but it is worthwhile to think about them as being "useful idiots" as well as a nefarious organisation with agency.
behind the bastards did two episodes on the Moonies, I feel they very much asserted their goals and crawled into positions with politicians by way of "eh theyre weird but why not"
There's a great deal of overlap between system-players and useful idiots. Many of them aren't big enough idiots to miss the fact that being a bit of an idiot is a great way to get the system's support.
It may seem like a wild swing to us in the West, but this kind of story has played out before in Japan. In fact there are some very clear parallels between this and the May 15th Incident of 1932. In that case, a group of young naval officers, motivated by ultranationalism and the preachings of one very out there Buddhist monk, assassinated the sitting prime minister. Afterwards they surrendered to police and used their trial to explain their motives. Their candor and apparent eagerness to sacrifice themselves for their cause earned enough popular support that the judge let them off easy, partially leading to the rise of military power in Imperial Japan and touching off the events of the Second World War. Obviously the men involved in the May 15th Incident had much less sympathetic motives, but the structural parallels between the two events are still pretty clear.
Well there is a very notable parallel: Hitler and the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. After his arrest, he was put in a court with a sympathetic judge (who was a holdover from the Imperial court system, as many were), and gave long speeches pontificating on the necessity of his attempted coup. As a result, he was given a few years in a low security prison, with the jduge's reasoning that his patriotic intentions were a strongly mitigating favor in his attempted high treason.
The actions in 1932 were a noble act of self sacrifice by promising young officers to change the course of the nation in the service of the Emperor. This was the assassination of a political has-been for perhaps cultural, but not expressly political reasons. While the assassins in both cases may be somewhat sympathetic characters, I really don;t see much more in common. Oh, and the second world war had nothing to do with Japanese militarism an everything to do the warmonger JFK forcing their hand by imposing an embargo in defense of the French Empire, hoping (sadly correctly) he could use it to draw the US into Britain's war of aggression against Germany in Europe.
This video is incredibly well made. The production, story telling and visuals looks those of a big production team. Keep producing this high quality content, can't wait to watch more of your videos! 🙌
@@spectacles-dm I couldn't have said it better myself, you just earned another subscriber, the visuals are really awesome and the story flows very smoothly, great work
It's hard not to sympathize with a man who just sets out to eliminate the person that he deems to have ruined his whole family and his life. He saw through the corrupt nature of Abe. When the reports first came out, everyone just dunked on Yamagami for being a psychopath and Abe having poor security. But the reality the situation is far more complex. Yamagami did not harm anyone else, he did not harm innocent people, he only harmed the not so innocent.😢😢😢😢😢
My brother inc Christ , all political scenes are corrupt by default. It's inevitable with centralization of power. Government usually acts as as biggest , most dominant gang/mob.
I mean any Japanese president first and foremost serves Washington, not Japan. Otherwise America will never allow that to happen. This is one of the reasons Japan is so screwed, they're not sovereign
It doesn't matter what's what if the politics are right. In 2015, the Abe government refused to admit refugees affected by conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. Abe said Japan must "solve its own problems before accepting immigrants."
I did a presentation on Shinzo Abe to a college class of Canadian students. Very complex and complicated topic to explain to people who have zero context into any of this. But towards the end of the presentation many of my classmates didn't have much sympathy for him. One girl even said she thought the killer had nice hair.
@@anon_148Nope. If evil falls, that is a good thing. There is little to no good about Shinzo Abe. Though ironically his party won the next elections probably boosted by him lol
@@GalacticNovaOverlordAnd just like that a boob popped up to, without a hint of irony, claim an assassination in a modern functioning democracy had been "a good thing". Are you trying to trump the girl the OP spoke of by showing off your IQ of 60?
As someone who grew up in the UC (no longer a member) in the US, I want to say you got this very right. I remember hearing stories as a kid of the outrageous “donations” Japanese members had to make. It always felt weird. The donations asked of by US members were tame (if only in comparison). I especially like the broader point made about religion and state. I feel like a lot of people miss this hard when talking about the Moonies. It often feels like people go “Oh look at this koooky crazy cult” (which I for the most part agree with) but fail to abstract the larger lessons that can be learned. Great work, my dude.
In the US that cult is called "Christianity." Plain and simple, it's too big to fail, and calling it a cult is an awful thing to say. But it's a cult all the same to me. The book tells you to give your church 1/8th of your money ffs... There is an ominous feeling of an encroaching "Christian Shariah Law"
I think it’s because these discussions can be legitimately difficult. There are a lot of ex-Christians in the US with very legitimate grievances with their treatment and how those attach to larger issues, but when getting towards the broader idea of separation of church and state, things become difficult, as I think many people in the States are not very approving of the French for using this separation a bit like a cudgel and creating a chilling affect particularly towards people of Islam. And while many people call for the dropping of tax exemption from religious organizations, it might have unforeseen consequences. As someone left-leaning myself, I wouldn’t want bishops approved by a Congressman for the sake of reducing taxes or threatened by government seizure. And even then it wouldn’t be right just to ignore legitimate grievances that churches and religious organizations have caused in the States and what parts of the system they have abused to do so.
@@DinggisKhaaniMagtaal That's why all churches need to be taxed, the concept of "state approved religion" Is as much of a bastardization of separation of church and state as the topic of the video.
@@LMMEntertainment I'm not an anarchist. States are good and their power is just. When I say "state approved religions is bad" I don't mean "any time governments interact with religion it's bad.". ALL groups should be taxed just like everything else. The food you eat, water you drink, street you walk on, bed you sleep in, building you sit in, computer you type on, electricity you consume, and clothes you wear are taxed, and this is good, so should religious organizations. Want to not be taxed? Offset your tax burden with charity just like any other non profit organization. No, I do not care if "most charity is done by religious organizations." prove it. submit the proper forms and documents that SHOW you provide enough services to lesson your tax burden. Render unto Caesar, just like that one jewish guy said.
Extremely well produced video, and an insightful one at that. Its not too often that a video so succinctly delivers exactly what I hoped, and in such a great package
@@spectacles-dmIt's hard not to sympathize with a man who just sets out to eliminate the person that he deems to have ruined his whole family and his life. He saw through the corrupt nature of Abe. When the reports first came out, everyone just dunked on Yamagami for being a psychopath and Abe having poor security. But the reality the situation is far more complex. Yamagami did not harm anyone else, he did not harm innocent people, he only harmed the not so innocent.
An excellent reporting. Strangely a year and a month passed since the event, not a single court session was held. Yamagami tweeted before the shooting that he was ready to sacrifice himself in order to save other victims.
I thought I already knew what's there to know about this - but I had no idea that GOP regularly praises the church as well. This channel is really worthwhile, even if I already saw several videos on that particular topic. Well made, soothing, concise, connecting the right dots ...
@@crimsonfire6932 thats just christianity in general. Jesus: abandon wealth, live modestly, and love your fellow human. christians for the next 2000 years: how bout no
@@boarfaceswinejaw4516 More like all religions, you could say the same thing with Iran, India, Russia, and Saudi Arabia (their respective religions) nowadays. At least Christianity tried to moved on from its past, adopting into modern society and morals.
I watched the stream of the speech. I saw Abe shot live. At the time I was so shocked, so horrified. But now, I completely understand the assassination. I love how we've gone from "how terrifying" to "oh, that's why? yeah that makes sense."
I think it's less that people hate him after he was assassinated, and more that now he's dead, the Japanese people are more open to say that they hate him.
I was living in Japan when he was assassinated. I can say that the collective feeling everyone had from my perspective was "meh". It was no where near as impactful as the One Piece movie
It's very telling that all japanese people on the comments bellow are saying that public opinion didn't change on Japan, and that the video is very partial.
And what’s worse is that it isn’t the only notable cult present in Japan. The Happy Science cult is also there and it seem they have, even if minimal, political influence.
Man, this was so well done. Thank you for teaching me about this scary assassination. Shinzo Abe’s death really made me feel for the Japanese people. But this does now bring up a needed conversation.
You can say that "Japan hates him" only if you consider twitter as an actual representation of japaneese people's opinions. Remember kids: twitter is not a real place.
The way I describe this is, "I found out more about Shinzo Abe's assassination and the details behind it. It was crazy! The dude was in with a cult!" "Who? The Assassin?" "NOPE!"
Abe wasn't really in the cult so much as a fellow rider. Think of it like all the politicians who hanged out with Jim Jones before he fled America. Basically as a politician he needs allies and cults tend to present themselves as social religious movements, and they tend to have a lot of sway and influence due to their members, so politicians often try to make friends with religious movements. Of course, sometimes those religious movements turn out to be cults, and sometimes politicians don't always care who they align with. It's is an issue, but it is an issue with the system rather than a simple case of "there was a politician in a cult".
I was so sure his assassination had to do with Abe’s connections to Nippon Kaigi alt-righters and _it’s_ connections with the modern Yakuza. I did not expect anything like this.
Imagine if Angela Merkel was Hermann Goering's granddaughter, denied the Holocaust and prayed at a Hitler memorial stone. Shinzo Abe was the equivalent of that. Nobusuke Kishi, the brutal governor of Manchuria nicknamed the "Monster of Showa" was his grandfather, a Japanese war criminal who got out out of the war crimes tribunals because the Allies thought he was a good economic planner and mad him prime minister. As Prime Minister, he pressured the Eisenhower administration into expediting the release of convicted Class B and Class C war criminals. Abe engaged in the same war crime denialism as his grandfather and visited the shrine where war criminals are buried.
'prayed at a Hitler memorial stone' Wrong as wrong can be. The Yasukuni Shrine is a religious war memorial (not a grave) at which all those war dead who died in service of the Emperor are enshrined. Praying there is praying for child soldiers and munitions workers and nurses and Korean conscripts and Taiwanese volunteers and carrier pigeons. Go and visit the Shrine, leave your prejudices at home, learn something for once.
@@WiggaMachiavelli Sure Jan. You forgot to mention the shrine lists the names of 1,066 convicted war criminals, twelve of whom were charged with Class A crimes (the planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of the war). You also forgot to mention that Emperor Showa stopped visiting the shrine over the war criminals being enshrined, and his successoros have never visitied the shrine. Leave your nationalist propaganda at home and get a clue.
@@WiggaMachiavelli I am not sure but I really don't get your arrogant dismissal of the OP, a shrine that "all those war dead who died in service of the Emperor are enshrined" (i.e. the soldiers that participated willingly in a war of aggression), sounds a lot like a "Hitler memorial stone" to me. Or are you just playing with semantics between a "shrine" where dead are enshrined and a "grave" where the dead are buried because you are a douche that doesn't have a moral argument to stand on? I mean come-on, the OP didn't even mention a grave and a memorial stone is not even a grave, you just pulled that strawman out of your ass.
@@zeDotenator The evidence for that is debatable, but even if it were true, it is natural that a popular figurehead with a constitutional obligation to stay away from politics should keep clear of political controversy. Given the sorts of lies that are spread, it would be a real pain for the Imperial Household Agency.
Like many others before me, I came from the Hoog community post too. Have to say, I'm not disappointed, great channel and great videos, really loved the future cities one!
I'm French and I can assure you that laïcité is absolutely not an uncomfortable standard to most here. There have been some issues in the last two decades, like the wearing of religious clothes in schools, but on a political/societal level a vast majority of people are very comfortable with and attached to it. It's one of the core values of our republic. We respect religious freedom but basically it must be done in private.
How are the Islamists taking it, though? Considering how some are willing to murder over merely depicting Muhammed (Charlie Hebdo attack,) I'd figure Muslums would be making quite a stink over this rule.
I can assure ITS AN VERY BIG UNCOMFORTABLE STANDARD for alot of people. Just because some rich pricks are okay with it doesnt mean that the majority is also okay with it.
Just because you disagree with people doesn't mean they are all rich pricks. I could as easily say that people uncomfortable with it are all religious extremists. Anyway, appart from the specific issue about girls wearing veils in schools, which is tightly linked to the history of Arabic populations integration in French society and the consequences of colonialism and widespread racism, I never heard anyone complain about it. It really is a core value of the French democracy, following the dismantling of feudal privileges in which the Church was a big offender.
@@mladizivko You're right. To be more precise it's just that it should not be linked to the public scene, as in public management of society, public office etc. Belonging to a religious community is considered to be part of the private sphere. The important rule is the separation of state and church.
Sounds shitty and will absolutely be used to demonize Christians like it already has in Europe and North America... such as with them speaking out against murder of children, mutilation of children with "colon surgeries" for sake of gender affirming care, being against prostiution and sexual exploitation of women, mass lockdowns of people, being able to hold church gatherings, etc. etc. A society without religion will make up some degeneracy to takes its place like with LGBTQABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.
@@thefatherinthecave943 pretty sure that people rapes because of their own uncontrollable urge and desires rather than someone else's orders, too many people take information on the face without knowing the real truth or context much less if you get information on RUclips where people created content to attract more views, the more controversial it is the more it would get viewed and in the end journalism is just the same everywhere else.
@@thefatherinthecave943 Shinzo Abe was born 1954. Japanese occupation of Korea ended 1945. You can call the case that he denied Japanese war crimes, but unless you think you can time travel he didn't order Japanese war crimes at the tender age of negative nine years old.
Thanks for so cleanly unpacking all that led to the shooting. I had no idea. Your also nicely frame for our ongoing tension between religious freedoms and the need for the separation of church and state
This isn't the first time that an individual or small group have committed a crime of passion/rebellion/whatever you want to call it and ended up with massive public support. It's an interesting phenomena.
I was living in Japan when it happened, and I was in class. It was insane when the pop up came on the teachers laptop saying about the news. Everyone was in shock I’ll never forget it
Abe's family has roots that go deep into Japan's history of early 20th cen. Japanese imperialism. Maybe Spectacles could do a similar report on Church of (Unified) Scientology in the U.S. and how they came to be recognized as a "church" in the first place.
Yes, and I don't understand why he is has a bad opinion of it "according to some ineffective, but to most a rather uncomfortable standard"... It's normal I think for us in France, and I surely don't want any lawmaker or representative come up and justify a law based on their faith alone.
@@LeLouisLafontaine It's probably referring to peripheral symbols which by not wearing them somehow is seen as an offence to the deity or culture they are attached to. This is a discussion in many places other than France as well though Example. Some religions (or cultures within at least) mandate covering your face. But doing that can be a problem for identification. Other religions mandate carrying weapons, which is obviously seen as even more of an issue considering.. well, this video for example.
I wouldn't use "support for a state funeral" as correlation to whether someone has positive opinion on a person. A lot of people can simply be generally positive or ambivalent towards Abe but also not what the expense of a state funded funeral.
Here in my country, politicians will always ask for the support of some of the religions groups. These religious groups would force their members to only vote for the said politician's party. Usually, these politicians are part of a family dynasty and they continue to hold power for decades because of that.
American attorney here. You stated that "it is technically illegal for American religious organizations to endorse political candidates " .... That is completely false. It is illegal for 501 c 3 to do so. There is no requirement that a religious organization must be a 501c3. Or for that matter Incorporated in any form. It is entirely possible to have an informal church, or even a for-profit church. In either case it can participate in politics.
Great video! Amazing storytelling and very captivating. however the title and thumbnail are in contrast to that. Work on that and you will grow huge :) keep up these amazing vids!
Would love any more detailed thoughts you have on the title and thumbnail. Constructive criticism is always welcome. And so glad you enjoyed the video!
I say ban money to politicians from religious organizations. It's the primary way churches get political power. It's fine if an individual follower gives money, but a church shouldn't be allowed to give large swathes of it's money to a politician for favors
Money is useless lol as politicians prefer the votes and blessings from the preacher more than the money itself. Which makes it harder to be proven as Churches have their own unique way to gather up voters for that particular politicians
One thing to note is that Japan has a long history of sympathizing with assassins. This was particularly on display in the lead up to WW2 in the so called “government by assassination,” but it’s even older than that. In the Tokugawa period you have the 47 ronin incident, for example. The shogunate even had a rule that if a samurai attacked another samurai, both would be punished. What the west would think of as the “victim” must have done something heinous to cause the attacking samurai to disregard his honor and throw his life way. Or so went the thinking.
@andersnelson Not really. Ninjas are liked for the same reasons pirates or gangster are liked. The romanticized versions of them you see in media highlight the "cooler" aspects while downplaying the negative aspects
@@MetalBansheeXthe population is predominantly Buddhist, and seeing this foreign religion manipulate their peers is enough to get them up in arms against it.
It's hard not to sympathize with a man who just sets out to eliminate the person that he deems to have ruined his whole family and his life. He saw through the corrupt nature of Abe. When the reports first came out, everyone just dunked on Yamagami for being a psychopath and Abe having poor security. But the reality the situation is far more complex. Yamagami did not harm anyone else, he did not harm innocent people, he only harmed the not so innocent.😢
As a Southern Christian that whole Moonie Theology just had me going "This is the most blatent Heresy I've ever heard" and was saying Heretics in my head more than a Warhammer Space Marine
This is so weird. Growing up I actually trained in Won Hwa Do alongside Shotokan Karate. The training was definitely more rigorous than karate. The promotion system was brutal as well, I had to fight an adult. I was like 12. He did hold back but definitely not that much. He did not take off his ring and I had chest pains long after that. I remember asking myself who that weird guy in the picture was. It's this guy in the video. Sun Myung Moon! Now I see the political motivation. He was raising a religious army.
Well, I wouldn’t say Japan hates him now. Many were against his state funeral now, but I get the impression that a lot still like him despite everything. Source: Am Japanese.
The problem is money in politics and governance. Politicians and bureaucrats either enrich themselves or are bribed. That church traded in money and influence just like all our big corrupt institutions do.
My ex-best friend from middle school was a part of the Unification Church and since we were best friends, i hung out with her a lot. Yeah, that religion is a mess and it was always uncomfortable when ever she and her family spoke about it being the one true religion and its teachings and seeing how brainwashed she was. She's an ex because she was emotionally abusive towards me but sometimes i regret cutting off all ties just so I could hear her thoughts about everything happening in the world now, especially since it's all an antithesis to her upbringing
To give some context, most of the Japanese people I spoke to at the time (I live in Japan) were opposed to the state funeral because of the high cost. The estimates for the funeral were about the equivalent of 10 mil USD. It might not sound like a lot, but it seemed much more than necessary, for someone who wasn't the Prime Minister anymore. The point of the state funeral was to honor Abe and his legacy. That was kind of the problem in people's minds, as it related to the cost. Abe's legacy was rife with wasting money on stupid things, just one example: when corona started and the government sent one or two cloth masks to everyone... which only arrived long after the time when it would have been useful. 'Abe's mask' was an infamous point of ridicule among the Japanese. So, since much of his legacy was built on wasting money, while Japan's economy continued to plunge, they were about to waste even more money on a funeral that could have been done much more lowkey and on a smaller budget. Japanese people felt they couldn't catch a break from this guy even after his death.
The whole video is about how bad this church is, but not much relation to Abe. As i understood. And he killed him because of his speech in the church only. And whole country Japan bought it? Seems like a joke. Please someone explain me. I clearly see different purpose.
Fortunately(unfortunately?) I imagine the number of people thinking “I am a scientific terrorist, I need hard data these tactics actually work!” is very, very small.
@@spectacles-dmI think assassinating politicians in the Western world, unlike Japan,is much, much harder than it was in say, the 1960s (probably *because* it kept happening in the 1960s), so I don't think this sort of thing will catch on. That said, the sort of violent radicalism that in the '60s or '70s would lead someone to target a politician nowadays usually makes people seek to massacre a whole lot of innocent ordinary people instead, which is much, much worse.
I think a difference to your "run-off-the-mill" terrorism, e. g. Al-qaeda or the red army faction, here is that the perpetrator didn't fight for some abstract cause, but to right a wrong that affected him personally, committed by a powerful organisation that is a known bad actor, whereas the other kind of terrorism actually alienates people from cause, like whipping up islamophobia or anticommunistic sentiment in the case of the groups mentioned above. You could even compare the situation to how individual cases of police violence/state repression repression have kicked-off mass movements in Iran or France to name two more recent examples
Imagine assassinating a guy, telling people your reasons, and people actually overwhelming go "You know what, you're right" and hate the guy and the people you wanted revenge on. Most successful assassination in history.
There's a big drawback on the assassination
Under Japanese law dieing makes all charges against him disappearing, he was under heavy corruption investigations
His death means that his family will never have to give back anything because he can't be found guilty anymore
@@KaotikBOOOwhich usually means that the assassin was probably working with Abe to clear his Family. In Japan unlike in the West, police can often use the excuse of investigating a family member to open investigations to other members of the same family. With Abe dead, the cops can’t continue with any investigations, as you say.
@@KaotikBOOO Maybe this will be an action that drives people to change that law?
@@AllyMonstersI doubt it, although I hope so.
@@KaotikBOOO yeah, but he also dead.
I used to live in that neighborhood. He was assassinated right outside the building where my old doctor’s office is located. It was such a bizarre feeling turning on news and recognizing everything in the background.
I get the same feeling seeing an area I know on the news. I think it might that you think everything on the news is far away and you subconsciously disaccosiate it with reality. But when you see a place you know, everything suddenly gets real.
I felt the same seeing frequent spots I have visited all my life be the backdrop in a breif gang fued.
Hey, but how did Shinzo Abe go from the most popular PM ever to be hated and assassinated?
@@ecoideazventures6417 Yes. That's the part of this essay that I would have loved to get investigated deeper. My gut feeling tells me that, ever since the sarin attack in the Tokyo subway, most people in Japan feel extremely uncomfortable about zealous religious groups of any sort. I suspect the ties between LDP and the moonies must have been present in popular consciousness but never expressed publicly because of Japanese cultural tendency to keep things hush hush to the last moment. And that last moment seems to have been this assassination. That's the only explanation I can fathom that explains such an intense reversal of opinion from outrage about a public murder to "I can relate to this revolt against a corrupt figure" or "Abe had it coming", whatever true feelings are hidden behind that poll result.
A serial was filmed on the street I live on. It was bizarre to see my house on TV. I never got to see the acting in person sadly, cuz it was always during school hours
@@syntheretique385 Thanks a lot for such an insightful point! One of the most sensible comments found on RUclips!
I live in Japan. Yes, the assassination did bring the wrath of the Japanese people on the Unification Church, but it is not so clear to me that it has resulted in an increase in hatred for Abe. Before his death Abe was liked by some, and strongly disliked by those who saw him to be corrupt. I don't know that his death changed those feelings much in the long run.
some out of touch campaign for post bubble Japan(2000 onward) that felt... out of touch. You would think that 'Cool Japan' program would've boosted foreigner's investments in Japan, but when its program sent out to many 3rd world countries, it tend to look more like replacing domestic Japanese workers with cheap foreign labors, where first, IF the laborer can afford to go strange, unknown foreign paths with own/family money, usually as a whole bet in early age study, like high school onwards.
I was looking into some Japan conventions in Indonesia back in 2010-2015, you have had to be born in the high connected family to afford what the flyers were about, e.g. Study, work, events, etc., its a waste of money on Japan's behalf, and its not for most or even half of anyone in the middle class 'cause no one can afford it. Could've invested in their own industry, don't you think? pay their own countrymen better, send out more complete exports(which the Japanese did able to snuck behind most corrupt distribution/customs chain for fairer price)
yeah people overestimated his popularity in Japan, he was anti union and very fiercely pro military, an easy way to make some people really angry at you
@@maniswolftoman I'm fine had it worked out for even just 30-50%, but Japan also has many overseas, localized industrial branches that Japan itself had no natural resource of manufacturing in their own land. They needn't importing labor that still is being enticed by Japan's generally higher minimum wage(and rights policies that is also still better protected than the factories they built in other countries)
Those old Japanese companies building manufacture plants overseas were pioneers being mostly considerate of the locals, they weren't turned into sweatshop workers when quite the expertise were also handed down; Its rather sad that such creative relation were gone as any government-backable option.
Yeah I'm not sure how a killing could increase the hate for the person killed?
Sounds like the math they are trying to teach children these days.
No wonder it turns into poop at the end if traitor #Trump💩 and the filthy GoP is involved😏
the weirdest part of this whole story to me is still when the French news started naming Hideo Kojima as the assassin
Punished Kojima
Wtf 😂
Is this real 😂
Konami set him up
It was not the french news actually but a right-wing influencer called Damien
Rieu.
How bad do you have to be that when a person assassinates one of your biggest supporters, the entire nation goes, "You know what? That assassin had a pretty good point."
The fans when NASCAR banned Curtis Turner be like
I know a handful of ex Mormons who would easily empathize with the assassin.
Just superb marketing from the CIA
@@StoutProper
The CIA was at the side of the guy who died, if you did not notice.
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 you mean he was their asset. They have a habit of cleaning house when their assets are no longer useful to them or become a liability. Look at David Ferriere and Lee Harvey Oswald.
Nice video, just shame it's a bit incomplete.
It would have been good to make it 10-20 seconds longer and mention how Shinzo Abe wasn't the original target of assassination. The assassin was going to the church for months, looking for an opportunity to assassinate its leaders, which didn't work out and then he found out about the politic connections. He also considered making bombs, but didn't want to affect innocent people,.. That's the part of what makes this sad event more understandable.
It's an uninformed guy's opinion. I doubt he knew that Abe wasn't the target. Just look at the comment section. Pretty much everyone in Japan is saying "Nah they don't all hate shinzo" Guy wants clicks so he made a cult vid about stuff he didnt know about.
@@deadseriouslymovingHe also posted a reply saying they "couldn't fit it in", when it literally takes zero extra effort to add in that information to the narration.
@@deadseriouslymovingafter all, this is a political video. Rationality and reason are set aside.
this guy could have resorted to cursing his targets to their death by channeling his negative emotions as a 'prayer' and released himself from them negative emotions so that some spirit could carry out his will..
I don't think the author of the video lets things like reality get in his way...without even knowing what you mentioned in your comment, the narrative rubbed me the wrong way. Could have been the carefully styled NPR-Cadence™, or how he early on admits Abe had no connection to the church, yet then makes the crux of the video how Abe and the church were somehow connected...came off to me like the rantings of yet another angry leftist atheist trying to project their issues on others
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This is an amazing video but i do want to mention an important point- his original target was Moon's widow, but her security detail was way too strong, and her movements were too difficult to track- the former prime minister of Japan was actually an easier target, so he settled for Abe over her.
This is true! We talked about it but couldn't fit it in. Thanks for watching and for the note!
@@spectacles-dm You know you can just make the video longer right? You can "fit in" anything you want to fit in, youtube hasn't put limits on video length for like a decade now.
@@Toksyuryel This is infotainment. Holding content creators to a higher standard is much less possible than adjusting your expectations, just like on the history channel.
@@CheeseOfMasters Call it whatever you want, this is the space where you still cannot shut people down from questioning you.
@@spectacles-dmyou had a narrative to run with, no need to add correction or context! Whoops! Lmao no better than. Msnbc or fox buddy
I went to a high school owned by the Unification Church. It was hard seeing my friends slowly get brainwashed and lose years of their lives to the cult. Many never finished schooling in favor of doing “missionary” work, where they recruit new members and gather money for the cult, or marry early through the cult’s own version of arranged marriage. I was only half-way through college when half of my classmates from high school who were part of the cult were already married or engaged. I’m glad this is getting more attention and I hope more countries and people follow-suit in condemning this cult.
Sounds terrible, but was it voluntary? Were your friends FORCED to be part of the cult? Or they joined on their own will/stupidity? If it was voluntary, then it's light-years better and morally superior than the socialism Abe's murderer defended, because socialism is based and sustained by COERCION, since it never works and ends in dictatorships to avoid people from rebelling.
Yep, nothing worse than relationships..
@@myman8336 damn right.
this is happening in brazil with a certain protestant chruches. with a much higher success rate since 90% of brazilians are christians, so almost nobody calls it a cult, but they prey like vultures on very vulnerable people, it's bizarre. oh they are also 100% aligned with right-wing conservative politics, of course. which is funny because the bible is against a lot of stuff the right-wing preaches.
my mom is protestant and sometimes she does charity work with her church, like feeding the homeless and helping poor people getting a house and a job, but she's slowly getting involved with an infamous billionaire church and sometimes i fear that they're gonna "get" her.
@@anti_acido
the bible is almost always on the right side if it comes to political spectrum nowadays
When I was little, my caretaker (Japanese) was pulled into this cult. Most of what my parents paid for her services, went to the cult. It's disgusting how this "religion", rather a disguise for a greedy cult based on manipulation, drains and makes their followers miserable. When I was 13, I saw her in a supermarket. I asked her why she was in this cult, and she took offense to it and left. That's the last time I ever saw her.
Why was she mad
@erocktherockjohnson5169 The same reason most cultists hate being accused of being in a cult. It's pure denial.
@@DJBSharpMusic ik but if i was in a cult i think id be proud of it or something
@@erocktherockjohnson5169 how could you be proud while being in a cult that sucks away your livelyhood
@@erocktherockjohnson5169Well maybe she was. That's why she got offended because OP called it a 'cult' and not a 'church' (I mean, it'd make sense if OP really called it a 'cult'. If not, then I don't know why she got mad. Maybe OP sounded aggresive. Or she felt attacked or accused🤷♂️)
In a land where access to guns is extremely rare, the shooting and dedication of the shooter to make his own gun and throw his life away in such a public manner (thats become common in america) was a genuine alarm to the japanese people to pay attention that something was wrong here and listen
“You can ban guns but you cant ban my balls” -Brandon Herrera
( he was talking about the steel balls he used as bullets)
@@Waterenjoyer1308compare the amount of gun deaths per 1000 people in the usa and other developed countries america is alone at the top
@@definitlynotbenlente7671and?
@@bigloler99lel42 Meaning that 350 million armed fortresses isn't exactly the 'land of the free'
@@bigloler99lel42I fail to see how easier access to guns is going to solve gun violence.
Gun violence is more than just "They can get again with it" because they can't. They will get arrested more often than not. It's a symptom of another problem.
What you're proposing is also that citizens go ahead and uphold the law themselves.
There's a reason why we have a dedicated police force to do the job instead.
Sure you can make an argument that more gun acces can help get the shooter to stop earlier by killing them, but that assumes that:
A. Enough people carry guns around to be able to do that
B. That the shooter's aim is accurate enough to shoot the shooter and no something else like a brick wall or a police officer
C. That gun violence deaths from the increased gun incidents don't exceed gun deaths from before gun access is increased
A lot of big assumptions.
People don't just carry big guns for the same reason why people don't wear armor all the time: It's heavy, bulky, and useless most of the time.
There's also a reason why the military requires aiming training. So that its soldiers don't hit the wrong thing, or not hit anything. Because it's easier to say to shoot someone than it is to actually shoot them.
Any idea can seem good at first glance. It's only when you look at the details that you start realizing how bad of an idea it is.
I'd heard plenty about the Moonies and their wild antics, but never that madness with Nixon. The craziest part is Nixon heard about it and was like "Oh they are praying for me! Sounds like my type of people, I should invite them to the White House."
That's not wild.
That's your average American president acting like American president.
@@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944 It's what every politician does. The difference is that the US President is so powerful that it has worldwide repercussions, thus people cry about them, ignoring how their own do the same exact thing.
@@stephenjenkins7971 Sorry, but as far as I know that is complete bullshit!
The President of my country and most countries near it don't sponsor or hang out with cults.
Most world leaders don't.
Not all countries are like the chunky USA.
You know that Moonies were at the beginning and maybe even to this day funded by the CIA right?
The USA is a nation of theft, dishonor, and apparently a cult sponsor.
There are certainly other countries that sponsored at least one cult, but the USA will sponsor anyone who they could use as sledge hammer against their enemies.
Most nations don't do that.
@stephenjenkins7971 exactly
@@stephenjenkins7971 amerimutt cope is overflowing
In Japan, people here do not often speak their mind. They sit on it, and sometimes people explode in anger. Things like this are rare. This murder only let people share a part of their bottled up rage against the korean cult and its massive influence in the LDP governement in Japan. This mans family is definitely not the first one to be financially ruined by the cult.
Can confirm with an exchange teacher we had here in Mexico, she just reached a limit and started screaming at students about her grievances, one even cried that day, needless to say she resigned and went back to japan quickly
My mother is Japanese. It kind of hurts to watch happen. I really wish it wasn't like this. It's an extremely frustrating social pattern. Things need to change for things... to change.
How the fuck did Koreans got so much foothold in JAPAN like damn
Japanese don't even that level of guilt unlike wypipo
but still a bunch of KOREANS were able to guilt trip and get that paper from that
Gotta respect the hustle though
@@Brian-tn4cdGood. Entitled Europeans especially in Mexico should follow her lead. Some Mexicans already fed up with foreigners thinking they can disrespect and boss Mexicans around in their country/North American continent. Soon the rest of Mexicans will follow suit if they keep on stirring the bees nest. Being tolerant can only last so much.
Why you mention "Korea"
Moon saying “Jesus died because he couldn’t get married, and I’m the second coming of Jesus” just sounds like he desperately wanted a girlfriend
He has a wife who dumped him after the church started.
@@StatiCRjm proof of what? this was an opinion
Religious heads and deviant sexualities are a match made in heaven.
Lmao
maybe in your religion
Abe seems like a name prone to assassination
Sounds like you have this joke locked and loaded.
Abe Lincoln?
@@darthzayexeet3653 Abe Shinzō.
This joke really blew my mind, made me turn around, and get shot in the chest.
@@normanmai7865 🤣🤣
Eito Suzuki who is very dedicated in uncovering the dark side of cults in Japan has written several books about this topic. The one specifically analyzing the attacker is very comprehensible and remains largely neutral. It would be very valuable if his books got localized from Japanese to English, so non-Japanese can have more in-depth understanding of this event, the church and the attacker.
You read Japanese and English, right? Sounds like you’re the man for the job!
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Translating is a skill, you aren't just automatically able to do it well because you understand both languages, and it's not an easy one. Suggesting someone translate a book just because they do is really silly.
Amen. Christianity is the only noble religion.
Google translate won't do?
@Eduardo_Espinoza google translatw is unreliable, there's a lot of errors and mistranslation
I live in Kobe, Japan.
I realize my comment is anecdotal, but I feel like Spectacles is WILDLY overstating the effect of the assassination. The drop in Abe's approval rating (posthumous) is likely a residual effect of distaste for "Abenomics." (Keep in mind his next two successors are towing his line.) Of the hundreds of Japanese I know and work with, NOBODY has expressed gratitude over the assassination. To the author of this video, it appears that correlation equals causation, even without any proof.
I've heard that many Japanese equate Christianity with the unification church. Is this a common sentiment?
"Gratitude over the assassination"? You don't need that to recognise Abe and his party are bad people
@@evanceaicovschi7230 Since Japan is a very atheistic country, and less than 2% are religious in the traditional sense if ancestral worship is not counted, there is prone to be misconceptions, especially when Christianity is both rare and a foreign concept. One notable exception is Taro Aso, an infleuntial leader of the LDP, who is Catholic. It sort of shows how Christianity is kind of seen as an elite-establishment religion that is uncommon among the common people.
Highly anecdotal
I mean, any economic reform program isn't going to popular in Japan because things would have to get a lot worse before they get better (e.g., zombie corporations, shrinking workforce, etc.). Plus, Abenomics had structural reform which wasn't ever implemented.
I don't think the assassination triggers the reaction, it just allowed discourse and people that didn't like him felt it was a good time to bring up their own grudges.
I think it might also be worth to consider that Japan is really collectivist. So when someone is in power ppl act in favour no matter thier own oppinion to support collective unity. But once that perception gets challanged and ppl become aware that thier own oppinions are not that much of an outside view. That support might collapse quickly.
@@scheikundeiscool4086Yeah Japanese are an ant society
@@scheikundeiscool4086 oh damn, that's a really interesting point!
@ArransFxckedUpBased stop all the discord, work together and move to the next stage enjoyer???!
@ArransFxckedUp what? that's a hivemind. This doesn't mean that it would work for the greater good. Youre so naive
its also bizzare when you consider Abe’s grandfather and who he was, Nosubuke Kishi.
The monster of manchuria, whose rule over the puppet empire of manchuria killed many many natives during Japanese role, for him to become a well known bureaucrat and member of the LDP post war.
Sadly, stories like that were the norm. Most Japanese war criminals were rehabilitated by the USA after WW2 in return for their help in "anticommunist efforts". Shiro Ishii, the commander of the infamous Unit 731, got to live out his days in peace; when he should've been flayed alive and tossed in a vat of saltwater.
@@gaiusjuliuspleaser its even funnier when you find out that the american inspired “democracy” of Japan has had the same party in power for decades, with many people in Abe’s cabinet being involved with Nippon Kaigi, a very reactionary organisation.
@@ricardofan2733more things to think about, Japan's so called "democracy" was forced. Their constitution was basically written by a foreign power (USA) and they were forced to sign it.
@@ardel-4964 Of course it was forced, they moved from near-totalitarianism under an Emperor who was the head of the state religion. This is like the King Charles telling people that he is descended from God and from this point, you will worship him.
What else would you suggest this be replaced with? No nation lives under democracy lmao. The LDP in Japan have been in party since 1952, and across many democracies there's only ever two parties who win, parties that never do anything differently to the other lol.
Looking at family history is not a fair way of judging someone though. Since if you look it that way, a lot of Germans have grandfathers in the SS. Not saying that Abe is a good person, He is one of the revisionist and one of the people that keeps going into Yasukuni Shrine, but family history is not a fair way of judgement.
Still not over how a Japanese prime minster got grubbed by a DB from Rust.
goddammit LOL
he was so LLLOOOAAADDDEEEDD
Exactly my thought, I was wheezing when I saw what murder weapon was used.
He got stream sniped
Yeah I honestly am surprised that this event wasn't memed more. This dude built a gun out of duct tape and toilet paper tubes and smoked one of the 21st century's most significant political figures.
"Abe wasnt related to the church" few minutes later "Abe was related to the church"
He didn't say that. He said Abe wasn't a member of the church. Which he isn't
After hearing about how Abe denied the Rape of Nanjing and Japan’s sexual enslavement of 50,000 - 200,000 women, I honestly find it kinda hard to react to his death with anything more than ‘meh’.
As a Japanese person, legit idgaf about him, but the memes were funny tho.
“Have more sex, ya’ll.”
- Shinzo Abe
@@YukariAkiyama
"Change da world
have sex
goodbye"
As a Japanese, I also agree.
"Maybe the elders should be left to die... and younglings should fuck like rabbits?"
Though, in general, I deeply dislike any elder in power. Mature, surely, but anyone older than 50 may not be apt to run a country.
Imagine this in Germany… nobody will take you serious
Many comfort women were also ethnic Japanese. I wonder shouldn’t the Yasukuni Shrine also enshrine those women in “service” of the Imperial military? I mean they’re willing to loop in and honor the war criminals but not a single thought about those women aka the real victims?
So ... big factual error at 11:00 where the author states that it's "technically illegal for religious organizations to endorse political candidates" in the US. Actually, it's perfectly legal; you just forfeit your tax-exempt status if you do so.
As a Japanese person, I wouldn't say all of Japan hates him. A lot of conservatives tend to portray him as a bit of a martyr, while liberals point out things he did or defended that conservatives tend to kind of ignore. It's really a mixed bag, I would also say a lot of people just don't really dwell on it, just post some condolences online maybe and move on.
This sounds like what would happen if trump was assassinated.
Could you explain what separates conservatives and liberals in Japan? I know those lines are a little different in different countries.
@@skyereave9454Liberals hate nationalism and want to import third worlders to Japan and turn Toyko into a Chicago.
@@skyereave9454 i'm not Japanese but have read quite a bit about Japanese politics so take this for what you will, from what i understand it's somewhat similar to America in that liberals in Japan are really more centrist-liberal, and not in any fashion leftist/left wing as liberals are often described by conservatives. liberals in both the US and Japan are just the leftwing of the conservatives and the conservatives the right wing of the liberals, they exist in a very narrow band of the political spectrum and seem to mostly just disagree on social issues.
the Liberal Democratic Party or LDP (despite it's name it's a conservative political party) that Abe was a part of and that is and has been the overwhelmingly dominant party in Japan (so much so that Japan is considered a sort of de facto one party state) since 1955 is sort of like their version of the US Republicans, they're a rightwing Japanese Nationalist party, though many of their policies are closer to America's Democrats. for example they are aiming to be carbon neutral by 2050 through renewable energies and nuclear energy, are proponents of wealth redistribution through higher taxes to pay for social needs, and are willing to give tax breaks to companies that will raise wages. all those are things the Republicans in the US are mostly against. but they also deny Japanese war crimes from their Imperial days and WWII, are against same sex marriage, are highly nationalist, and they want to expand the JSDF with many wanting to have a full fledged military again. all those align with more traditionally conservative ideals.
then you have the CDP which are the second largest party in Japan but and are kinda like their version of the US Democrats. they want to scale back nuclear power and focus more on renewables, are pro LGBTQ rights, want more welfare for low income families, want greater wealth redistribution than the LDP does, and have tried to make *some* amends for the crimes of Japanese Imperialism. many LDP members and supporters would probably be closer to someone like Bernie Sanders in the US than say Joe Biden.
there are other both conservative and liberal, and even leftist parties, but they wield no real power. for example, the Japanese Communist Party has seats in their House of Representatives but it's less than 10% of the assembly, which basically means they can't pass any of their proposed legislation. a lot of the people what would be described as liberals in the US would be more like democratic socialists in Japan, while people described as conservative in the US would fit in pretty well with Japanese conservatives.
@@fullmetalfunk The LDP sounds pretty great
Ok but your video didn't actually explain hatred for Abe, why so many who previously favored him were quick to overturn their support. The video kind of just kind of digressed into a focus on the church and not the premise I expected from the title.
I think the hatred comes from him endorsing the cult and having connections with them
It's not that public opinion on Abe "changed" from like to dislike
It's that media laws and unspoken decorum in Japan silence criticism.
Once people felt it was OK to speak out, those who were always angry simply came out of the woods
hes a war crime denier
Because it's a lie based on absolutely nothing except this guy's hateboner for anything remotely right-wing.
@@burgundian_system every Japanese politician is a war crime denier, it's career suicide to acknowledge anything bad that japan did in ww2.
Not saying this to excuse Abe. From what I've read, his apologia was outrageous - including trying to exonerate his Class A War Criminal grandfather (who became prime minister of japan in 1957 with US support)
Wow I never heard the full story on Abe’s assassination. Great video!
Thank you!
@@spectacles-dm so you're telling me the moonies are Japan's talibán in the 80s(operation ciclón) xD??
He's not the first Abe to get assassinated.
It's hard not to sympathize with a man who just sets out to eliminate the person that he deems to have ruined his whole family and his life. He saw through the corrupt nature of Abe. When the reports first came out, everyone just dunked on Yamagami for being a psychopath and Abe having poor security. But the reality the situation is far more complex. Yamagami did not harm anyone else, he did not harm innocent people, he only harmed the not so innocent.😢😢😢😢
@@franciscoacevedo3036
Japan`s Scientology and Jonestown more like
Ironically, the assassination achieved exactly what the assassin wanted and then some.
only one major shame....didn't catch on and become a trend, lots of "world leaders" out there who don't reallyyyyyyyyy need to continue existing.
im saddened that likely very few will understand how to and actually make a gun like that to use it for a good reason, unfortunate because there's books and stuff online that make homemade guns easier to make than most think.
@@bloodlove93fbi, right here, he's encourage the assassination of world leaders
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@@bloodlove93i feel like I’m on a watchlist just reading this comment 😭😭
@@bloodlove93Say hi to the FBI 😂
i think this is the first time i've heard of an assassination in history that actually worked to fix the reason for the assassination
@@Mapleboi404i know enough about japanese communism to know thats not true
@@jamesrustle7536While Japan is not a socialist nation, the Japanese Communist Party or Kyousantou is the most active self denominated communist party in the world outside of a socialist nation. Although their ideology is a lot less radical nowadays, being closer to social democracy instead.
@@duskpede5146 technically in the sense that Japan actually didn't become communist. Also most communist parties in Japan are more centre left these days
@@angelusvastator1297 well no one disagree's that japan didn't become communist. but that wasn't really to do with the individual power struggles of post ww2 politics, but more because
1. the soviets did not occupy any part of japan so no communist puppet got set up. plus the US would never allow japan to flip red
2. after years of fascism (and before that, liberal democracy) communism never really became a serious part of japanese politics. and because japan lacks unions a socialist party wouldn't have much support, financial or not, from institutions. which also rules out the possibility of revolution
3. and thirdly, democratic socialism never works. its like you said that the socialist parties are all but centre left now. except thats the story of every socialist party will eventually become a centre left party as they become more prominent. its just the way things always go
so yeah no, japan was never becoming communist assassination or no assassination
@@duskpede5146 You might never know. China and Vietnam were once countries under massive US influence along with anti-communist extremists that liked to purge their opponents left and right. And yet they're communist.
Even if they didn't, dude could easily make the general population sympathetic to communism based on his appeal to anti-US military influence, pan Asianism (he allied with CCP China) etc.
The fact that people can be dangerous is the one thing keeping rulers from abusing all of us. Some might argue that it's laws or founding principles, but really it's that people have an expectation to be treated justly. Take that away, and it's honestly pretty fair that the ones on top are removed by any means.
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Yeah, youtube does that a lot they don't want you linking off youtube. You should integrate them in the video, it's not that difficult. I want to note for the record that the seperation in the US is the separation of religion from control of the state, not that religion has no say in state. It's very clear from Jefferson and the constitution this is the case.
should've clarified that he wasn't a member like he said, but he certainly had connections with it, Which is what drove the assassin to target him, you are doing what i think is "flim flam" which is saying something is not true, but then saying it is true later on but not directly "Even though he is not a member" then later on "Which drove the party (Shinzo Abe's party) to cut all ties/connections to it (The Unification church), The party he was leader of."
RUclips has gotten overzealous regarding removal of links and certain words.
I knew of Abe's assassination, but I could never figure out why it happened. Thanks for enlightening me!
most murder can be summed up as "hate" crime because you aren't killing someone you love, obviously you killed them because some ill will, it comes down to people suck and some can't move past that, and remember people are innocent, but treasure makes them guilty, meaning your luck is also your misfortune via jealousy from others.
in the end its hatred, jealousy, desperation, desire, loss, to experience and move these is human nature.
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we all know basic reasons of murder nerd the OP is saying he doesn't know the motivation for Abe's assasination
@@bloodlove93you said so much without actually explaining why Abe was killed other than you squeezing the dictionary definition of "hate"
@@bloodlove93TLDR: Say little of importance with as many words as possible
@@bloodlove93 lol we get it you watched that South Park episodes on hate crimes, very insightful
The key question regarding the Moonies is: did they assert their goals and achieve popularity by "playing the system", or were they at the right place at the right time to be useful to the system and thus were "allowed" to succeed? The answer is probably that it was a bit of both, but it is worthwhile to think about them as being "useful idiots" as well as a nefarious organisation with agency.
True.
a nefarious organization dedicated to use useful idiots for nefarious purposes.
behind the bastards did two episodes on the Moonies, I feel they very much asserted their goals and crawled into positions with politicians by way of "eh theyre weird but why not"
Like most of history its both, the mix of time and conditions and a psychotic determination to get power
There's a great deal of overlap between system-players and useful idiots. Many of them aren't big enough idiots to miss the fact that being a bit of an idiot is a great way to get the system's support.
This video didn’t tell me a goddamn thing about why the public opinion has shifted after his death.
Assassination sparked the interest to research Abe's ties with the Moonies in the Japanese population, is what I got from the video.
It may seem like a wild swing to us in the West, but this kind of story has played out before in Japan. In fact there are some very clear parallels between this and the May 15th Incident of 1932. In that case, a group of young naval officers, motivated by ultranationalism and the preachings of one very out there Buddhist monk, assassinated the sitting prime minister. Afterwards they surrendered to police and used their trial to explain their motives. Their candor and apparent eagerness to sacrifice themselves for their cause earned enough popular support that the judge let them off easy, partially leading to the rise of military power in Imperial Japan and touching off the events of the Second World War.
Obviously the men involved in the May 15th Incident had much less sympathetic motives, but the structural parallels between the two events are still pretty clear.
Is not that strange, the west have a lot of church based politicians and corruption
Well there is a very notable parallel: Hitler and the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. After his arrest, he was put in a court with a sympathetic judge (who was a holdover from the Imperial court system, as many were), and gave long speeches pontificating on the necessity of his attempted coup. As a result, he was given a few years in a low security prison, with the jduge's reasoning that his patriotic intentions were a strongly mitigating favor in his attempted high treason.
Nothing unsympathetic about it.
The actions in 1932 were a noble act of self sacrifice by promising young officers to change the course of the nation in the service of the Emperor. This was the assassination of a political has-been for perhaps cultural, but not expressly political reasons. While the assassins in both cases may be somewhat sympathetic characters, I really don;t see much more in common.
Oh, and the second world war had nothing to do with Japanese militarism an everything to do the warmonger JFK forcing their hand by imposing an embargo in defense of the French Empire, hoping (sadly correctly) he could use it to draw the US into Britain's war of aggression against Germany in Europe.
@@costakeith9048 Found the Nazi, and one with a shaky grasp on the order of the US presidents besides.
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It's hard not to sympathize with a man who just sets out to eliminate the person that he deems to have ruined his whole family and his life. He saw through the corrupt nature of Abe. When the reports first came out, everyone just dunked on Yamagami for being a psychopath and Abe having poor security. But the reality the situation is far more complex. Yamagami did not harm anyone else, he did not harm innocent people, he only harmed the not so innocent.😢😢😢😢😢
No wonder it turns into poop at the end if traitor #Trump💩 and the filthy GoP is involved😏
Abe Shinzo is just one puzzle in the extremely corrupt political scene in Japan.
like any mafia, those who are dead are replaced quickly
My brother inc Christ , all political scenes are corrupt by default. It's inevitable with centralization of power. Government usually acts as as biggest , most dominant gang/mob.
@@RRninja-jq6lp nailed it
I mean any Japanese president first and foremost serves Washington, not Japan. Otherwise America will never allow that to happen. This is one of the reasons Japan is so screwed, they're not sovereign
It doesn't matter what's what if the politics are right.
In 2015, the Abe government refused to admit refugees affected by conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. Abe said Japan must "solve its own problems before accepting immigrants."
I did a presentation on Shinzo Abe to a college class of Canadian students. Very complex and complicated topic to explain to people who have zero context into any of this. But towards the end of the presentation many of my classmates didn't have much sympathy for him. One girl even said she thought the killer had nice hair.
@@anon_148Nope. If evil falls, that is a good thing. There is little to no good about Shinzo Abe.
Though ironically his party won the next elections probably boosted by him lol
@@GalacticNovaOverlord still a little retarded to go "ok but that guy looked kinda good though"
@@anon_148 lmao fr
@@GalacticNovaOverlordAnd just like that a boob popped up to, without a hint of irony, claim an assassination in a modern functioning democracy had been "a good thing".
Are you trying to trump the girl the OP spoke of by showing off your IQ of 60?
@@GalacticNovaOverlordYou have a problem you need to get over.
As someone who grew up in the UC (no longer a member) in the US, I want to say you got this very right. I remember hearing stories as a kid of the outrageous “donations” Japanese members had to make. It always felt weird. The donations asked of by US members were tame (if only in comparison).
I especially like the broader point made about religion and state. I feel like a lot of people miss this hard when talking about the Moonies. It often feels like people go “Oh look at this koooky crazy cult” (which I for the most part agree with) but fail to abstract the larger lessons that can be learned.
Great work, my dude.
In the US that cult is called "Christianity." Plain and simple, it's too big to fail, and calling it a cult is an awful thing to say. But it's a cult all the same to me. The book tells you to give your church 1/8th of your money ffs...
There is an ominous feeling of an encroaching "Christian Shariah Law"
I think it’s because these discussions can be legitimately difficult. There are a lot of ex-Christians in the US with very legitimate grievances with their treatment and how those attach to larger issues, but when getting towards the broader idea of separation of church and state, things become difficult, as I think many people in the States are not very approving of the French for using this separation a bit like a cudgel and creating a chilling affect particularly towards people of Islam. And while many people call for the dropping of tax exemption from religious organizations, it might have unforeseen consequences. As someone left-leaning myself, I wouldn’t want bishops approved by a Congressman for the sake of reducing taxes or threatened by government seizure. And even then it wouldn’t be right just to ignore legitimate grievances that churches and religious organizations have caused in the States and what parts of the system they have abused to do so.
@@DinggisKhaaniMagtaal That's why all churches need to be taxed, the concept of "state approved religion" Is as much of a bastardization of separation of church and state as the topic of the video.
@@visoriannull832 this is exactly why churches generally shouldn't be taxed, the guy just put a (good) reason why it's like that.
@@LMMEntertainment I'm not an anarchist. States are good and their power is just. When I say "state approved religions is bad" I don't mean "any time governments interact with religion it's bad.". ALL groups should be taxed just like everything else. The food you eat, water you drink, street you walk on, bed you sleep in, building you sit in, computer you type on, electricity you consume, and clothes you wear are taxed, and this is good, so should religious organizations. Want to not be taxed? Offset your tax burden with charity just like any other non profit organization. No, I do not care if "most charity is done by religious organizations." prove it. submit the proper forms and documents that SHOW you provide enough services to lesson your tax burden.
Render unto Caesar, just like that one jewish guy said.
Extremely well produced video, and an insightful one at that. Its not too often that a video so succinctly delivers exactly what I hoped, and in such a great package
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@@spectacles-dmIt's hard not to sympathize with a man who just sets out to eliminate the person that he deems to have ruined his whole family and his life. He saw through the corrupt nature of Abe. When the reports first came out, everyone just dunked on Yamagami for being a psychopath and Abe having poor security. But the reality the situation is far more complex. Yamagami did not harm anyone else, he did not harm innocent people, he only harmed the not so innocent.
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An excellent reporting. Strangely a year and a month passed since the event, not a single court session was held. Yamagami tweeted before the shooting that he was ready to sacrifice himself in order to save other victims.
If that was in a video game that would be kind of based
I thought I already knew what's there to know about this - but I had no idea that GOP regularly praises the church as well. This channel is really worthwhile, even if I already saw several videos on that particular topic. Well made, soothing, concise, connecting the right dots ...
Well the cult was at the begging or maybe even to this day financed by CIA so...
US agency used tax payer money to prop up cult.
It’s pretty wild when you consider that this churches teachings are strongly heretical.
@@crimsonfire6932 I suppose that conservatives are not only into real-politik but also into real-theology :-)
@@crimsonfire6932
thats just christianity in general.
Jesus: abandon wealth, live modestly, and love your fellow human.
christians for the next 2000 years: how bout no
@@boarfaceswinejaw4516 More like all religions, you could say the same thing with Iran, India, Russia, and Saudi Arabia (their respective religions) nowadays. At least Christianity tried to moved on from its past, adopting into modern society and morals.
Holy shit, 2022’s news cycle was so crazy that I completely forgot that Japan’s prime minister was assassinated.
Former but yes
I watched the stream of the speech. I saw Abe shot live. At the time I was so shocked, so horrified. But now, I completely understand the assassination. I love how we've gone from "how terrifying" to "oh, that's why? yeah that makes sense."
People who know about Abe’s politics and background haven’t changed their opinion. “We’ve” always hated him
true, i don't think his grandfather was the most admirable person@@alfredandersson875
Sometimes violence is the answer.
It's still a condemnable offense to assassinate.
@@icantthinkofaname4265 Violence is almost never the answer. Here killing a man over religious stuff is ridiculous.
I think it's less that people hate him after he was assassinated, and more that now he's dead, the Japanese people are more open to say that they hate him.
I was living in Japan when he was assassinated. I can say that the collective feeling everyone had from my perspective was "meh".
It was no where near as impactful as the One Piece movie
It depends on where you live. Where I lived, people were shocked over the event.
@@杨江辞 It's Japan: every prefecture is a boomer prefecture.
One Piece movie?
LOOL
@@BodywiseMustardone piece film: RED
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Mission accomplished for Tetsuya I suppose, in more ways than one.
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Respect
The other assassination attempt with the impromptu bomb: We'll get em next time.
It's very telling that all japanese people on the comments bellow are saying that public opinion didn't change on Japan, and that the video is very partial.
Yo, this cult keeps showing up in random issues. Wtf. Someone needs to deepdive into this cult.
People have. Google it. There's some incredible pieces, of long form journalism, about them.
Behind the Bastards did an episode on the history of the Moonies
Aum, the cult that did the sarin gas attacks, is still active in Japan because there wasn't anything in the law that could justify their dismantling
They're just under a new name and in hiding, Aleiph I think
they got more?
should put it to good use.
And what’s worse is that it isn’t the only notable cult present in Japan. The Happy Science cult is also there and it seem they have, even if minimal, political influence.
Aum Shinrikyo, crazy what they did with the Tokyo subway attack like jesus christ
Because no one wants to accept that religious fairy tales are the real problem
Man, this was so well done. Thank you for teaching me about this scary assassination. Shinzo Abe’s death really made me feel for the Japanese people. But this does now bring up a needed conversation.
You can say that "Japan hates him" only if you consider twitter as an actual representation of japaneese people's opinions.
Remember kids: twitter is not a real place.
The way I describe this is,
"I found out more about Shinzo Abe's assassination and the details behind it. It was crazy! The dude was in with a cult!"
"Who? The Assassin?"
"NOPE!"
Abe wasn't really in the cult so much as a fellow rider. Think of it like all the politicians who hanged out with Jim Jones before he fled America. Basically as a politician he needs allies and cults tend to present themselves as social religious movements, and they tend to have a lot of sway and influence due to their members, so politicians often try to make friends with religious movements. Of course, sometimes those religious movements turn out to be cults, and sometimes politicians don't always care who they align with. It's is an issue, but it is an issue with the system rather than a simple case of "there was a politician in a cult".
You sound like the one in the cult here, considering you're justifying his death. Freak.
ok burger
@@agrajyadav2951nanking happened
I was so sure his assassination had to do with Abe’s connections to Nippon Kaigi alt-righters and _it’s_ connections with the modern Yakuza. I did not expect anything like this.
So glad you enjoyed and learned something!
@@spectacles-dm 👍
Sometimes both answers can be true, a political assassination styles the alt right in Japan and the unification church
Alt Night whats that ? some indie book store
Keep using 2013 terms in 2023 please
Sun Myung-Moon is the Joseph Smith of Korea
Imagine if Angela Merkel was Hermann Goering's granddaughter, denied the Holocaust and prayed at a Hitler memorial stone.
Shinzo Abe was the equivalent of that. Nobusuke Kishi, the brutal governor of Manchuria nicknamed the "Monster of Showa" was his grandfather, a Japanese war criminal who got out out of the war crimes tribunals because the Allies thought he was a good economic planner and mad him prime minister. As Prime Minister, he pressured the Eisenhower administration into expediting the release of convicted Class B and Class C war criminals. Abe engaged in the same war crime denialism as his grandfather and visited the shrine where war criminals are buried.
'prayed at a Hitler memorial stone'
Wrong as wrong can be. The Yasukuni Shrine is a religious war memorial (not a grave) at which all those war dead who died in service of the Emperor are enshrined. Praying there is praying for child soldiers and munitions workers and nurses and Korean conscripts and Taiwanese volunteers and carrier pigeons. Go and visit the Shrine, leave your prejudices at home, learn something for once.
@@WiggaMachiavelli Sure Jan. You forgot to mention the shrine lists the names of 1,066 convicted war criminals, twelve of whom were charged with Class A crimes (the planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of the war). You also forgot to mention that Emperor Showa stopped visiting the shrine over the war criminals being enshrined, and his successoros have never visitied the shrine. Leave your nationalist propaganda at home and get a clue.
@@WiggaMachiavelli I am not sure but I really don't get your arrogant dismissal of the OP, a shrine that "all those war dead who died in service of the Emperor are enshrined" (i.e. the soldiers that participated willingly in a war of aggression), sounds a lot like a "Hitler memorial stone" to me.
Or are you just playing with semantics between a "shrine" where dead are enshrined and a "grave" where the dead are buried because you are a douche that doesn't have a moral argument to stand on? I mean come-on, the OP didn't even mention a grave and a memorial stone is not even a grave, you just pulled that strawman out of your ass.
@@WiggaMachiavellino Japanese Emperors have gone to Yasukuni Shrine in nearly 50 years because of the class A war criminals enshrined there.
@@zeDotenator The evidence for that is debatable, but even if it were true, it is natural that a popular figurehead with a constitutional obligation to stay away from politics should keep clear of political controversy. Given the sorts of lies that are spread, it would be a real pain for the Imperial Household Agency.
Like many others before me, I came from the Hoog community post too. Have to say, I'm not disappointed, great channel and great videos, really loved the future cities one!
Thank you! Glad you're enjoying the videos!
Rewatched the video because this is incredible. I’m blown away by the quality
:) so glad you love it so much!
What a great video man, super entertaining.
Thanks so much!
I'm French and I can assure you that laïcité is absolutely not an uncomfortable standard to most here. There have been some issues in the last two decades, like the wearing of religious clothes in schools, but on a political/societal level a vast majority of people are very comfortable with and attached to it. It's one of the core values of our republic. We respect religious freedom but basically it must be done in private.
How are the Islamists taking it, though? Considering how some are willing to murder over merely depicting Muhammed (Charlie Hebdo attack,) I'd figure Muslums would be making quite a stink over this rule.
i somewhat agree, but idk about "must be done in private"
Religion to me is heavily also about the community
I can assure ITS AN VERY BIG UNCOMFORTABLE STANDARD for alot of people. Just because some rich pricks are okay with it doesnt mean that the majority is also okay with it.
Just because you disagree with people doesn't mean they are all rich pricks. I could as easily say that people uncomfortable with it are all religious extremists.
Anyway, appart from the specific issue about girls wearing veils in schools, which is tightly linked to the history of Arabic populations integration in French society and the consequences of colonialism and widespread racism, I never heard anyone complain about it. It really is a core value of the French democracy, following the dismantling of feudal privileges in which the Church was a big offender.
@@mladizivko You're right. To be more precise it's just that it should not be linked to the public scene, as in public management of society, public office etc. Belonging to a religious community is considered to be part of the private sphere. The important rule is the separation of state and church.
If a church starts trying to meddle with politics, it should lose its tax exempt status
They only got their tax exempt status by meddling with politics in the first place...
If the government starts trying to meddle with religion, it should lose its government status.
the same whit al ngo
Sounds shitty and will absolutely be used to demonize Christians like it already has in Europe and North America... such as with them speaking out against murder of children, mutilation of children with "colon surgeries" for sake of gender affirming care, being against prostiution and sexual exploitation of women, mass lockdowns of people, being able to hold church gatherings, etc. etc.
A society without religion will make up some degeneracy to takes its place like with LGBTQABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.
@@anuvisraa5786 NGOs often make shit way worse, just look at Africa.
Also they are often involved with human trafficking.
To say the Japanese hated Abe is not true. He was polarizing but popular. Many Japanese still mourn him.
Abe loved his nation and his nation loved him. There are many saboteurs in every nation that help control discourse, sadly.
@@iansteel6403I’m sure the 200k Korean women who were raped under Shizos orders appreciate that he’s loved by his nation
@@thefatherinthecave943 pretty sure that people rapes because of their own uncontrollable urge and desires rather than someone else's orders, too many people take information on the face without knowing the real truth or context much less if you get information on RUclips where people created content to attract more views, the more controversial it is the more it would get viewed and in the end journalism is just the same everywhere else.
@@thefatherinthecave943 Shinzo Abe was born 1954. Japanese occupation of Korea ended 1945. You can call the case that he denied Japanese war crimes, but unless you think you can time travel he didn't order Japanese war crimes at the tender age of negative nine years old.
@@thefatherinthecave943 Let's not forget his role in the Atlantic Slave Trade either, since we're blaming random things on him.
Thanks for so cleanly unpacking all that led to the shooting. I had no idea. Your also nicely frame for our ongoing tension between religious freedoms and the need for the separation of church and state
Thank you! so glad you enjoyed the video
This isn't the first time that an individual or small group have committed a crime of passion/rebellion/whatever you want to call it and ended up with massive public support. It's an interesting phenomena.
Beware of a man who has nothing to lose....
Indeed
Great video - love the production quality! Looking forward to other videos from you
I was living in Japan when it happened, and I was in class. It was insane when the pop up came on the teachers laptop saying about the news. Everyone was in shock I’ll never forget it
What? Japan does NOT hate Shinzo. Are you high?
Abe's family has roots that go deep into Japan's history of early 20th cen. Japanese imperialism. Maybe Spectacles could do a similar report on Church of (Unified) Scientology in the U.S. and how they came to be recognized as a "church" in the first place.
Thanks to the Fourth Estate, we never hear about these criminals in my country or about what they do.
Honestly France has got it right
Yes, and I don't understand why he is has a bad opinion of it "according to some ineffective, but to most a rather uncomfortable standard"... It's normal I think for us in France, and I surely don't want any lawmaker or representative come up and justify a law based on their faith alone.
@@LeLouisLafontaine It's probably referring to peripheral symbols which by not wearing them somehow is seen as an offence to the deity or culture they are attached to. This is a discussion in many places other than France as well though
Example. Some religions (or cultures within at least) mandate covering your face. But doing that can be a problem for identification. Other religions mandate carrying weapons, which is obviously seen as even more of an issue considering.. well, this video for example.
I wouldn't use "support for a state funeral" as correlation to whether someone has positive opinion on a person. A lot of people can simply be generally positive or ambivalent towards Abe but also not what the expense of a state funded funeral.
Agreed. Some ppl have more things to care about
Incredible video, looking forward to your future work
Thank you so much! You won't be disappointed :)
Here in my country, politicians will always ask for the support of some of the religions groups. These religious groups would force their members to only vote for the said politician's party. Usually, these politicians are part of a family dynasty and they continue to hold power for decades because of that.
Where is that?
United States?
@@MrAlsachti oh yeah. But they cannot like force them to vote like with a gun because you know,
Well, my country the Philippines does it as well...
American attorney here. You stated that "it is technically illegal for American religious organizations to endorse political candidates " .... That is completely false. It is illegal for 501 c 3 to do so. There is no requirement that a religious organization must be a 501c3. Or for that matter Incorporated in any form. It is entirely possible to have an informal church, or even a for-profit church. In either case it can participate in politics.
Exactly. The tax law is only if the cult wants to claim a tax break .
The worst they could get from the state is a small fine .
Fabulous work as always
thank you king
Great video! Amazing storytelling and very captivating. however the title and thumbnail are in contrast to that. Work on that and you will grow huge :)
keep up these amazing vids!
Would love any more detailed thoughts you have on the title and thumbnail. Constructive criticism is always welcome. And so glad you enjoyed the video!
I say ban money to politicians from religious organizations. It's the primary way churches get political power. It's fine if an individual follower gives money, but a church shouldn't be allowed to give large swathes of it's money to a politician for favors
Money is useless lol as politicians prefer the votes and blessings from the preacher more than the money itself. Which makes it harder to be proven as Churches have their own unique way to gather up voters for that particular politicians
and cut tax exempt status
we pay (unconstitutional) income tax, why shouldn't these businesses in sheep's clothing pay too?
@@john-ic5pzexactly. Only the megachurches because they are a cesspool of immorality.
Local churches should be excluded
can we just ban politicians.... from life?
just an idea.
@@john-ic5pzbecause the one with powersays so, which is anybody tbh with it tbh
One thing to note is that Japan has a long history of sympathizing with assassins. This was particularly on display in the lead up to WW2 in the so called “government by assassination,” but it’s even older than that. In the Tokugawa period you have the 47 ronin incident, for example.
The shogunate even had a rule that if a samurai attacked another samurai, both would be punished. What the west would think of as the “victim” must have done something heinous to cause the attacking samurai to disregard his honor and throw his life way. Or so went the thinking.
This mentality kinda explains their prosecution rate.
Is that why ninjas seem to be well-liked Japan? They make animes about hero ninjas (such as Naruto).
@andersnelson Not really. Ninjas are liked for the same reasons pirates or gangster are liked. The romanticized versions of them you see in media highlight the "cooler" aspects while downplaying the negative aspects
@michaeld7945 I mean Ninjas are spies/scouts so that's not a fair to compare them to actual criminals
This is totally true take my word for it bro.
sources linked in description :)
so you have some sources but do your sources have sources.@@spectacles-dm
I’m genuinely not surprised that the Japanese people would rally against the church’s injustices
Why's that?:)
@@MetalBansheeXthe population is predominantly Buddhist, and seeing this foreign religion manipulate their peers is enough to get them up in arms against it.
It's hard not to sympathize with a man who just sets out to eliminate the person that he deems to have ruined his whole family and his life. He saw through the corrupt nature of Abe. When the reports first came out, everyone just dunked on Yamagami for being a psychopath and Abe having poor security. But the reality the situation is far more complex. Yamagami did not harm anyone else, he did not harm innocent people, he only harmed the not so innocent.😢
@@mingyuhuang8944 He was a murderer. Grow up.
The cult was not a church
This was a really well done video from such a small channel. Wishing you much success!
As a Southern Christian that whole Moonie Theology just had me going "This is the most blatent Heresy I've ever heard" and was saying Heretics in my head more than a Warhammer Space Marine
Rather ironically, the Moonies for some reason have a large following down South
American conservative tends towards their own brand of heresy.
Well it isn’t more outlandish than Mormons or scientology
This is so weird. Growing up I actually trained in Won Hwa Do alongside Shotokan Karate. The training was definitely more rigorous than karate. The promotion system was brutal as well, I had to fight an adult. I was like 12. He did hold back but definitely not that much. He did not take off his ring and I had chest pains long after that. I remember asking myself who that weird guy in the picture was. It's this guy in the video. Sun Myung Moon! Now I see the political motivation. He was raising a religious army.
Karate only works if your opponent agrees to fight you with karate.
The production quality of this channel is incredible. You will hit 100k subs guaranteed in 6 months if you keep it up
Thank you! We hope so!
Well that didn't happen
Nowhere even close to 100k
Well, I wouldn’t say Japan hates him now. Many were against his state funeral now, but I get the impression that a lot still like him despite everything.
Source: Am Japanese.
Well because Japanese education brainwashes the population to deny war crimes, I’m not surprised.
Japan needs to re arm itself.Your neighbour is a monster in making.Source-I'm Indian
epic content mate. subscribed.
The problem is money in politics and governance. Politicians and bureaucrats either enrich themselves or are bribed. That church traded in money and influence just like all our big corrupt institutions do.
Lesson learned, if you're a world leader, dont be called Abe.
hurr durr
Lincoln wasn't a world leader. He was just a president, during a civil war, of a nation that was seen as a backwater at the time.
My ex-best friend from middle school was a part of the Unification Church and since we were best friends, i hung out with her a lot. Yeah, that religion is a mess and it was always uncomfortable when ever she and her family spoke about it being the one true religion and its teachings and seeing how brainwashed she was. She's an ex because she was emotionally abusive towards me but sometimes i regret cutting off all ties just so I could hear her thoughts about everything happening in the world now, especially since it's all an antithesis to her upbringing
Politicians HATE this one neat trick!
Excellent video, really impressive. I hadn't known about the assassin's motive, and it explains a lot.
Scientology but at the japanese style
tetsuya yamagami deserves his own movie
No
@@devon5154why not? Oswald got a movie. John Wilkes booth got one. Why not him?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution%2B1
@@dr.woozie7500i mean what he meant that q Movie of Tetsuya Yamagami would inspire other people to make guns and assasinate Politicians?
😢😢
Really love your editing style in this one.
To give some context, most of the Japanese people I spoke to at the time (I live in Japan) were opposed to the state funeral because of the high cost. The estimates for the funeral were about the equivalent of 10 mil USD. It might not sound like a lot, but it seemed much more than necessary, for someone who wasn't the Prime Minister anymore. The point of the state funeral was to honor Abe and his legacy. That was kind of the problem in people's minds, as it related to the cost. Abe's legacy was rife with wasting money on stupid things, just one example: when corona started and the government sent one or two cloth masks to everyone... which only arrived long after the time when it would have been useful. 'Abe's mask' was an infamous point of ridicule among the Japanese. So, since much of his legacy was built on wasting money, while Japan's economy continued to plunge, they were about to waste even more money on a funeral that could have been done much more lowkey and on a smaller budget. Japanese people felt they couldn't catch a break from this guy even after his death.
The whole video is about how bad this church is, but not much relation to Abe. As i understood. And he killed him because of his speech in the church only. And whole country Japan bought it? Seems like a joke. Please someone explain me. I clearly see different purpose.
the people didn't "bought" what the assassin said, but what the investigations after the assassination showed
The only smart person in these comments
Maybe the one time “Propaganda of the Deed” actually kind of worked…
Hopefully it doesn't set an example for others...
Fortunately(unfortunately?) I imagine the number of people thinking “I am a scientific terrorist, I need hard data these tactics actually work!” is very, very small.
@@TheCrewExpendable haha that's a good way of looking at it!
@@spectacles-dmI think assassinating politicians in the Western world, unlike Japan,is much, much harder than it was in say, the 1960s (probably *because* it kept happening in the 1960s), so I don't think this sort of thing will catch on.
That said, the sort of violent radicalism that in the '60s or '70s would lead someone to target a politician nowadays usually makes people seek to massacre a whole lot of innocent ordinary people instead, which is much, much worse.
I think a difference to your "run-off-the-mill" terrorism, e. g. Al-qaeda or the red army faction, here is that the perpetrator didn't fight for some abstract cause, but to right a wrong that affected him personally, committed by a powerful organisation that is a known bad actor, whereas the other kind of terrorism actually alienates people from cause, like whipping up islamophobia or anticommunistic sentiment in the case of the groups mentioned above.
You could even compare the situation to how individual cases of police violence/state repression repression have kicked-off mass movements in Iran or France to name two more recent examples
thank you!
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wait so the dude who assasinated abe won?
Seems so
Yay
He was arrested, but his goal to raise awareness of the church seems to have worked
The point of the video