Tetsuya Yamagami pleaded guilty to shooting the former prime minister with a homemade gun in 2022, an act he tied to ...

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, earlier admitted to killing Abe in July 2022 as the former prime minister was giving a campaign speech ...

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, had admitted to shooting Mr. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister; but his case divided Japan.

The 45-year-old is set to be sentenced on Wednesday, but the question of what punishment he deserves has divided public ...

The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by Tetsuya Yamagami has exposed problematic ties between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Unification Church. Yamagami's trial ...

Tetsuya Yamagami was arrested on the spot in July 2022 after fatally firing at former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a ...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Fred Mery NARA, Japan, Jan 21 (Reuters) - A man accused of fatally shooting former Japanese Prime ...

The man who killed Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a homemade gun was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, public broadcaster NHK reported.

The killer, Tetsuya Yamagami, said his actions were fueled by anger over the controversial Unification Church. A court in Japan on Wednesday sentenced the man charged with fatally shooting former ...

A New Year visit to Ise Jingu is a tradition for prime ministers. During the third Abe Cabinet in 2015, Ms Takaichi, then Internal Affairs and Communications Minister, accompanied Mr Abe on his visit.

Gunman who assassinated Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe at political rally jailed for life - Sentencing comes three and a half years after Abe was killed while delivering a speech in Nara in ...

The Yamagami Tetsuya trial, which began in October after he admitting to killing former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in 2022, has increased anxieties about political corruption and the Liberal Democratic ...