Japan ex-PM Shinzo Abe’s killer Tetsuya Yamagami sentenced to life in prison

Japan ex-PM Shinzo Abe’s killer Tetsuya Yamagami sentenced to life in prison

The gunman charged with killing Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe was found guilty and jailed for life on Wednesday, more than three years after the broad-daylight assassination shocked the world. The slaying forced a reckoning in a country with little experience of gun violence and ignited scrutiny of alleged ties between prominent conservative lawmakers and a secretive sect, the Unification Church. Judge Shinichi Tanaka handed down the sentence at a court in the city of Nara. A queue of... [Continue Reading]

South China Morning Post South China Morning Post | 21 Jan 2026 04:46
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