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By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) -The mother of the man arrested for the killing of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is a member of the Unification Church, the church’s Japan head said on Monday. Tetsuya Yamagami, an unemployed 41-year-old, was identified by police as the suspect who approached Abe and opened …

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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Monday warned of “very high uncertainty” over the economic outlook and stressed anew the central bank’s readiness to ramp up stimulus as needed to underpin a fragile recovery. The remarks reinforce market expectations the BOJ will remain an outlier among a global …

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(Reuters) – Japan’s conservative coalition government was projected to increase its majority in the upper house of parliament in an election two days after the assassination of dominant politician and power broker Shinzo Abe. * Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, who sought to lift the economy out of chronic deflation with his bold “Abenomics” policies, …

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By Tim Kelly NARA, Japan (Reuters) -The man arrested for Shinzo Abe’s killing believed the former Japanese leader was linked to a religious group he blamed for his mother’s financial ruin and spent months planning the attack with a homemade gun, police told local media on Saturday. Tetsuya Yamagami, an unemployed 41-year-old, was identified by …

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By Ju-min Park and Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) – The man suspected of killing former Japanese premier Shinzo Abe with a hand-made gun on Friday could have made the weapon in a day or two after obtaining readily available materials such as wood and metal pipes, analysts say. The attack showed gun violence cannot be …

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(Reuters) – Japanese voters went to the polls for a parliamentary election that may give the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) a surge of support after the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a dominant politician and power broker. * Polls close and media exit polls are expected at 8 p.m. (1100 GMT) * …

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