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"Was." That's Abe and he was assassinated a few years ago.
Wasn't the assassination due to some connection to a church if I recall correctly
Yeah, Moonies. I can't remember why him. The kid that did it, his mom was grifted 100k or something. That's all I remember though.
It was because Abe, like other LDP politicians, had an history of propping up the Church of Unification cult. The shooter picked him specifically because of a video of Abe speaking in one of their churches. Abe's family in particular has connections to the cult since the very foundation, and their ties to the LDP are something out of a "Like A Dragon"/"Yakuza" plot.
He was a big supporter I think.
Most successful political assassination in recent memory. The shooter got everything he wanted and then some.
Inspiring, really.
with a doohickey gun some dude made in his basement, no less.
She is still alive, though, and may have been avoiding taking to Trump by not knowing English all along!
Its not talking about him though...
I think they’re saying that if Abe isn’t the prime minister anymore (because dead) then she isn’t the First Lady anymore either
That's like someone posting a picture of a newspaper when Bush was president and then someone commenting "well he's not president now haha" like yeah everyone knows that...
But it doesn’t say Abe’s name, so it’s very likely there’s some folks who don’t realize that this photo is rather old. It would be easy to read it and think this just happened in the last few days.
I think they were trying to be helpful, it’s likely not something worth being upset over.
I have no idea who Japan's current president is, so it's very useful information to me.
They're certainly talking about the First Lady, which she most assuredly is not.
not anymore*
I used the word "is." Present tense.
my app doesn't show the "is"
I assume she was when this was written or this is referring to her in that time period?
I think it's safe to assume that it was written during the period that she was.