The gunman charged with killing Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was found guilty and jailed for life Wednesday (January 21, 2026), more than three years after the broad-daylight assassination shocked the world.
The shooting 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 people waited Wednesday (January 21, 2026) morning to get tickets to enter the courtroom, highlighti
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