https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20220708/k10013707601000.html
You’ve been avenged Asanuma! DIE BITCH! :japan-cool::stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:
Japanese-American here. NHK is currently reporting the shooter was a Japanese national.
Is it appropriate that I’m feeling the smallest, tiniest sliver of hope in my parents’ birth country right now? I don’t know what all this will lead to, but this is probably the biggest political event in Japan since the fucking atom bombs, holy shit.
The pragmatist in me wants it to be a rightoid just because it would make japan go hard left
I’ll admit I’m not educated on this, but don’t most Yakuza and other organized crime syndicates tend to be made up of Zainichi and Burakumin and other marginalized social groups?
People on Japanese internet are saying they’ve examined the footage more closely and think it’s 2 pipes attached to a 2x4 block of wood. Might be an improvised weapon.
yeah the video had this big smokey blast, not what a normal gun does. someone witnessing said they thought abe got shot with a firework
Goddamn, a broad daylight assassination of a former head of state. How is this going to effect the country?
this edible aint sh-
If it’s a cult or worse fascists, this is funny.
But if it turns out to be a leftist… :joker-dancing:
Wikipedia mfers right now rushing to their PC to draft “Asassination/attempted assassination of Shinzo Abe”.
