On the evening of July 11, 2022, a wake ceremony was held at Zojoji Temple in Tokyo, Japan, to commemorate the former Prime Minister Shinzo, who passed away due to **.
The wake, led by Akie, the wife of **, attracted about 2,500 participants, including LDP bigwigs such as Fumio Kishida and Taro Aso. ** Tomomi Inada, a close confidant and former defense minister, also made an appearance at the wake ceremony.
Toru Yamagami, who assassinated **, revealed that his mother was obsessed with the "Unification Church" and donated funds to it, which led to the bankruptcy of the family, so she made the decision to assassinate **Shinzo, who was related to the "Unification Church".
According to Japan, the family has been involved with the "Unification Church" since his maternal grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi. The founder of the church, Bun Mingming, had a close relationship with Nobusuke Kishi and his father, former foreign minister, Shintaro.
* noted that at least 98 MPs are currently linked to the Unification Church, including a number of ministers and deputy ministers who have been reused.
Tomomi Inada, a former female defense minister who was once highly valued, once gave a speech at the "World Peace United" conference organized by the "Unification Church."
In addition, she was criticized at the 2017 Shangri-La Dialogue for making remarks about judging the value of women by "looking at their faces". In the conversation, she moderated with the female defense ministers of France and Australia, saying that they were "all women, of the same generation and, most importantly, that we are all good-looking".
Tomomi Inada has been disgraced internationally for her remarks, and in response, Japan** pointed out that her statement was "bizarre" and full of "sexism", and considered her as a female politician, such remarks are shocking.
In 2016, she was questioned in her parliamentary defense for saying that "in the long run, it is necessary for Japan to develop nuclear weapons."
Faced with Kiyomi Tsujimoto's questioning, Inada choked up and cried on the spot, and then was criticized for not having enough political literacy and being a "political vase".
In early 2017, she was embroiled in the "land pricegate" scandal and demanded that people in western Japan vote for the Liberal Democratic Party.
In addition, she said in an interview in 2016 that she wore glasses to make herself look smarter. Yuichi Goto, a lawmaker from the opposition party, quipped, "The prime minister should not concurrently serve as defense minister."
Many people in Japan think that the reason why Tomomi Inada can become the Minister of Defense is entirely because he has a "soft spot" for her, not because of his talent.
She is considered a "vase" in the cabinet and is just a pawn in her hands. During her career as a lawyer, she worked for the families of war criminals Takeshi Noda and Toshiaki Mukai, and became the new favorite of the Japanese right.
*Seeing her popularity and potential in her speech, Shinzo recommended her to run for the House of Representatives in 2005 and was successfully elected.
In 2006, she became the president of the Liberal Democratic Party's "Tradition and Creation Association" and began to carefully nurture her political career. In 2012, she was appointed Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform, and two years later became Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's Political Affairs Research Committee.
In 2016, she was promoted to Minister of Defence. However, due to the scandals involving the "land price gate" and "concealment gate", she eventually resigned and was replaced by Fumio Kishida.
Since then, she has been appointed as an assistant to the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party.
On August 15, 2019, ** as the president of the Liberal Democratic Party, when he offered "jade skewers" to the Yasukuni Shrine, Tomomi Inada presented it on his behalf.
* Still have trust in her. However, the new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, who was elected in 2020, did not include her in the cabinet because Suga valued people who were willing to reform and served the people.
Although Tomomi Inada had expressed the idea of a comeback and planned to run for the next prime minister of Japan, she failed to become a member of Suga's cabinet.