Probe Into Shinzo Abe Killing Suspect Looks at His Mother’s Church

TOKYO—The man suspected of killing Shinzo Abe could have focused the previous Japanese chief as a result of he perceived a hyperlink between Mr. Abe and a church that acquired cash from the suspect’s mom earlier than she went bankrupt, a church chief stated.

At a information convention, the top of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, an offshoot of a church founded in South Korea by the Rev. Moon Sun-myung, gave the primary detailed account of the background of Tetsuya Yamagami, the person arrested within the killing on Friday of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister.