Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, in addition to being charged with murder, was accused of violating the Firearms and Swords Control Law, among other laws.

A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced the man who assassinated the country's former prime minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022 ...

Abe was serving as a regular lawmaker after leaving the prime minister's job when he was killed in 2022 while campaigning in ...

THE gunman who assassinated Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been jailed for life three years after the shocking ...

The man who shot ex-Japan PM Shinzo Abe with a handmade gun in 2022 is due to spend his life in prison. The killer, Tetsuya ...

A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted to assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment ...

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

Sanae Takaichi hopes to convert personal popularity into solid electoral gains for ailing ruling party in expected snap vote ...

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.

Dec. 19 (Asia Today) --Japanese prosecutors have asked the Nara District Court to sentence Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, to life in prison for the 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ...

The man who was charged with assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has apologised in court for the first time to the Abe family, saying he had “no ill will whatsoever”. Tetsuya ...

Japan has entered a new political era. For the first time in its modern history, the country has chosen a woman to lead it. Sanae Takaichi, a 64-year-old conservative, has won 237 out of 465 votes in ...