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.
As he handed down the sentence at a court in the city of Nara, judge Shinichi Tanaka said...
Japan ex-PM Shinzo Abe’s killer Tetsuya Yamagami sentenced to life in prison
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