Editing Shūkyō nisei (section)

===Assassination of Shinzo Abe and its impacts on the ''shūkyō nisei''===
{{details|Tetsuya Yamagami#Motive}}

[[File:The vicinity of Kintetsu Yamato-Saidaiji station northern entrance on 8th July 2022.jpg|thumb|alt=The vicinity of Kintetsu Yamato-Saidaiji station northern entrance, where the Shinzo Abe shooting-to-death incident took place on July 8, 2022.|The vicinity of Kintetsu Yamato-Saidaiji station northern entrance, where former Japanese Prime Minister [[Shinzo Abe]] was [[assassination of Shinzo Abe|assassinated]], took place on July 8, 2022.]]
On 8 July 2022, [[Tetsuya Yamagami]] [[Assassination of Shinzo Abe|assassinated]] former Prime Minister [[Shinzo Abe]] while he was campaigning in [[Nara, Japan|Nara]] for a candidate in the [[2022 Japanese House of Councillors election|upper house election]]. Yamagami stated that he targeted Abe due to his ties to the [[Unification Church]] (UC), which he blamed for ruining his family.

Yamagami's mother had joined the UC around 1998, after his father committed suicide, leaving behind three children. She donated to the church extensively &ndash; more than 100 million yen in total, including her husband's life insurance payout, which put the family in a difficult financial position, to the extent that they sometimes went hungry. She declared bankruptcy in 2002. Yamagami did well at school and was admitted to the top high school in [[Nara Prefecture]], but could not afford to attend university. At one point he attempted suicide, hoping that the insurance payout would save his siblings from poverty.<ref name=":0"/><ref name="asahiyogisha">{{Cite web |date=2022-07-13 |title=容疑者母が旧統一教会に「献金1億円超」 親族が証言、夫の保険金も |trans-title=Relatives testify suspect's mother donated over 100 million yen to the former UC, including her husband's insurance money |url=https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASQ7F7428Q7FPTIL00Z.html |access-date=October 9, 2022 |website=Asahi Shimbun Digital}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Amamiya |first=Karin |date=2022-07-20 |title=「人生をめちゃくちゃにされた」安倍元首相銃撃事件、そして宗教二世問題 |trans-title=My life was ruined: The assassination of former prime minister Abe and the problems of the shūkyō nisei |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_jp_62d78c10e4b06e213fb84cbd |access-date=October 8, 2022 |website=HuffPost}}</ref>

The assassination drew attention to the plight of shūkyō nisei, and as a result, the issue began trending on social media.<ref name="bbc 0723"/> [[Online petition]]s for protecting shūkyō nisei were launched. One petition pleads for [[freedom of religion]] for shūkyō nisei so they are not bound by their parents' spiritual beliefs. This petition garnered over 37000 signatures on 30 July 2022.<ref>{{Citation|url=https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220730/p2a/00m/0na/010000c|title=Over 37,000 sign petition urging freedom of belief for Unification Church followers' kids|work=[[Mainichi Shimbun]]|date=2022-07-30|access-date=2023-08-06}}</ref>

In October 2022, an outspoken shūkyō nisei victim under the pseudonym [[Sayuri Ogawa]] called for the disbandment of the UC at the press conference, but received messages from her parents via the church accusing her of being mentally unstable and demanding an end to the press conference.<ref>{{citation
|url=https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/173687?display=1
|title=元2世信者が会見も…途中で旧統一協会が"中止要求"「私が正しいと思って下さるなら、どうか団体解散させて」 一方、細田衆院議長は"伝言ゲーム"で追加説明
|work=[[Tokyo Broadcasting System]]
|date=2022-10-08
|accessdate=2022-10-12
|language=ja
}}</ref> An online petition for dissolving the UC accumulated over 200 thousand signatures on 22 November 2022.<ref>{{Citation
|url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Asia-Insight/Japan-builds-case-to-dissolve-scandal-hit-Unification-Church
|title=Japan builds case to dissolve scandal-hit Unification Church
|work=[[The Nikkei]]
|date=2022-11-22
|access-date=2023-08-06
}}</ref>