TOKYO — A man accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to go on trial on Tuesday, three years after the assassination of Japan’s longest-serving premier stunned a nation ...

The gunman accused of killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe pleaded guilty Tuesday, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world. The slaying forced a reckoning ...

Oct. 28 (UPI) --The man accused of killing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 pleaded guilty to the assassination on Tuesday. Tetsuo Yamagami, 45, told Judge Shinichi Tanaka, in his ...

The Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara, where Shinzo Abe was shot. (Miho Inada/The Wall Street Journal) The man detained by police after shooting Shinzo Abe has told police he had no political grudge ...

A 45-year-old man admitted to killing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022, and his defense team asked the court for leniency at the opening of his trial. Tetsuya Yamagami fired a ...

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, was arrested at the scene of the shooting in July 2022 after allegedly firing at Abe with a homemade gun. A man accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...