When Yamagami Tetsuya fired the bullets that killed Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, he set off a chain reaction that upended Japanese society. The sheer force of his act brought down a church, a political party and a patriarch. In doing so it fractured the populace. On The Weekend Intelligence, Moeka Iida reports from the murder trial to tell the story of the assassination that changed Japan.
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