The latest news and top stories on Tetsuya Yamagami. He is identified as the perpetrator in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Yamagami served in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force for three years, from 2002 to 2005, achieving the rank of Leading Seaman. After his military service, he held various short-term part-time roles, including a forklift operator position from 2020 to 2022. He was unemployed at the time of his arrest. His actions stemmed from a personal grievance against the Unification Church, which he believed ruined his family financially.