Apparently his actual desired target was the president of the Unification Church and her entire family, but he found it too hard to kill them (I admittedly find it funny that the Church president was apparently better protected than the former prime minister).

I frankly think it was more effective due to luck from what I’ve read. There’d have been less of an impact IMO if the LDP wasn’t so deeply in bed with the Unification Church. Still probably would’ve been investigations, but the LDP wouldn’t have felt so pressured to punish them.