Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed in 2022. Soon after, an investigative journalist named Eito Suzuki started drawing connections between his murder and the Unification Church - whose followers are known as the “Moonies.” Phoebe interviews New Yorker writer Tammy Kim about the story.
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