According to reports in the Japanese media on Saturday, which were based on police sources, the man who fatally shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe admitted to authorities that his first goal was to attack a religious leader.

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Digital Desk: According to reports in the Japanese media on Saturday, which were based on police sources, the man who fatally shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe admitted to authorities that his first goal was to attack a religious leader.

According to international News platform which cited the police, Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, claimed he had a vendetta against a "particular organisation" that he thought was associated with Abe. This organisation may have been a religious organisation. The story did not name the religious figurehead.

In the western prefecture of Nara, Abe, 67, passed away on Friday morning after being shot in the back during an election campaign speech near a train station.

Yamagami was in possession of a handmade gun when he was apprehended. According to the authorities, he has denied committing the act because he disagrees with Abe's political views.

He also had no idea what he wanted to do with his life after high school and had left a job two months prior because he was "weary," according to The Japan Times newspaper.

Police raids at his Nara apartment on Friday resulted in the discovery of explosives and handmade weapons, according to the article. In his graduation yearbook, Yamagami, a graduate of a public high school in Nara Prefecture, stated that he "didn't have a clue" about his career goals.

He was a Maritime Self-Defence officer at the Kure base in Hiroshima Prefecture in 2005, according to government officials.

He worked in a Kansai-area manufacturing company in 2020, but he informed the employer that he wanted to leave because he was "weary" in April of this year, and he left the position the following month, it continued.