7/15 Shinzo Abe inherited the ties his war criminal grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, established with the anti-communist Unification Church of Sun Myung-Moon. The mother of Abe's assassin was defrauded by the Moonies; he blamed his target for shielding the cult./
Beginning with the founding of modern nation-states after the Meiji Restoration & the Risorgimento, Samuels traces the developmental dynamic in both countries through the failure of early liberalism, the coming of fascism, imperial adventures, defeat in wartime, and reconstruction as American allies
7/12 Unification Church 'volunteers' worked night and day on Ronald Reagan's campaign in New York in 1980. The church had them pretend to leave the church while they worked on the campaign and then they all mysteriously rejoined afterwards.