On 8 July 2022, Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister of Japan and serving member of the Japanese House of Representatives, was assassinated while speaking at a political event outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara City, Nara Prefecture. [3][4][5] Abe was delivering a campaign speech for a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate when he was fat...

2022年7月9日 · The man suspected of killing former Japanese premier Shinzo Abe with a hand-made gun on Friday could have made the weapon in a day or two after obtaining readily available materials such as...

2022年7月8日 · Within hours of a 41-year-old suspect’s arrest in the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with an improvised gun, police raided Tetsuya Yamagami’s home Friday and found...

2022年7月11日 · The 40-centimeter-long (16-inch) firearm that was used to kill former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday as he campaigned for his ruling party in Nara, western Japan, looked crude, more like a propellant made of pipes taped together and filled with explosives.

2022年7月14日 · Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Abe. Photos of the suspect at the scene in Nara show him holding what appears to be a handmade gun that fired two shots at...

2022年7月8日 · Around 1130 hrs local time on 8 July 2022, former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe (Abe Shinzō; 安倍 晋三), was shot in Nara, Japan, with a craft-produced (‘privately made’) firearm. Videos of the shooting suggest that the assailant was within a few metres of the former Prime Minister when he discharged the weapon.

2022年7月8日 · The man who killed the longest serving leader of modern Japan admitted to using a handmade firearm made from metal and wood. Police arrested a suspect at the scene of attack.

2022年7月8日 · Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, was assassinated with a gun on the streets of Nara, Japan. The killing shocked the world and, especially, Japan—a country with strict gun laws...

2022年7月8日 · TOKYO (AP) — The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in broad daylight Friday shocked a world that has come to associate Japan with relatively low crime and strict gun control. Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Abe was shot in the back while campaigning in the city of Nara for parliamentary candidates.

2022年7月8日 · Video shows a device consisting of two tubes, bound together side by side with black electrical tape, similar to a double-barrel shotgun. The weapon used to assassinate former Prime Minister Shinzo...