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Jul 8, 2022 · July 8, 2022 2 PM PT. 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 ...
- richard.winton@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Jul 11, 2022 · The 40-centimeter-long (16-inch) weapon used to kill former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday as he campaigned for his ruling party in western Japan, looked crude, more like a propellant made of pipes taped together and filled with explosives. A raid of the suspect’s home, a one-room apartment in Nara, turned up several such guns, police said.
- ykageyama@ap.org
- Japan Reporter
Jul 8, 2022 · July 8, 2022. TOKYO — Shinzo Abe, Japan’s most influential former prime minister, was stumping on behalf of a junior politician from his party near a train station in Japan’s old capital ...
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- Motoko Rich, Makiko Inoue, Hikari Hida,Hisako Ueno
Jul 8, 2022 · The suspect in the assassination of Shinzo Abe used a handmade gun to kill Japan's former PM, police say; Officers said they found several handmade weapons at the home of the suspect, Tetsuya ...
Jul 8, 2022 · The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a campaign rally in western Japan was especially hard to fathom because it involved a gun — a type of crime that is extremely rare in ...
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- Emily Cochrane
Jul 8, 2022 · By John Ismay and C. J. Chivers. July 8, 2022. The weapon used to assassinate former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan was an improvised firearm. Video of the assassination shows a device on the ...
Jul 9, 2022 · Police arrested a 41-year-old man and said the weapon was a homemade gun. ... "I am stunned, outraged, and deeply saddened by the news that my friend Abe Shinzo, former Prime Minister of Japan ...
