Orientalist Maslov questioned Abe’s involvement in any Japanese group
The affiliation of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to any group is rather doubtful. Abe was an absolute nationalist statesman and never participated in any non-systemic groups, said Alexei Maslov, director of the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University. In a conversation with Lenta.ru, he explained the motive of the criminal who shot Abe, who hinted that the former prime minister belonged to some group.
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Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, who shot dead former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, spoke about the reasons for his act. He said that the politician belonged to a certain group of people, because of which his family faced serious financial problems. “My mother was drawn into this group, made a big donation for her, because of which the life of our family went downhill,” Yamagami explained during interrogation. About which group of people it is not specified.
I think it meant something completely different. Shinzo Abe belonged not to a group, but to a grouping. If we look at what the shooter of Abe says in Japanese, then in translation he means the group, and this is something else.
The Orientalist emphasized that the grouping that we are talking about advocated radical reforms in Japan. One of these reforms could have affected the attacker’s family, he said.
“These were very serious reforms in the field of taxation and the economy and the reform of the army. Shinzo Abe introduced quite interesting points related to economic policy. For example, he introduced a negative interest on deposits: the longer the money is lying, the more they decrease, not increase. This was done to get people to throw their money into the real economy. Many who did not have time to figure it out suffered,” the political scientist explained.
“Absolute consistency”
If, nevertheless, we are talking about some kind of group to which the former Prime Minister of Japan could be involved, then in such groups one cannot hide one’s membership under Japanese law, said Alexei Maslov.
“If we discard the Yakuze, which are semi-criminal groups, but at the same time they are registered in Japan as various kinds of corporations, and it is unlikely that Abe belonged to them, then from the large ones, there are Masons in Japan. But there is no evidence that Abe belonged to any Masonic groups. And they are officially registered, and moreover, their membership cannot be secret according to Japanese law,” said the orientalist.
At the same time, it is not possible to talk about the membership of the former prime minister in a group that goes outside the system due to the political convictions of Abe himself, Maslov is sure.
Shinzo Abe was an absolute nationalist statesman
“I recall that Abe’s father was the founder of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Abe was considered to a certain extent the heir to this party. Well, we must understand that in the entire history of Abe’s life we have not seen him participate in any non-systemic groups, on the contrary, Abe formalized the absolute system in Japanese politics, ”concluded the orientalist.
On July 8, Shinzo Abe died after an assassination attempt. Doctors fought for his life for several hours. The politician was 67 years old. He was admitted in a serious condition to the Nara City Hospital after Tetsuya Yamagami shot him with a homemade shotgun during an election rally.
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