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Jul 8, 2022 · 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...
- richard.winton@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Charges. Murder. gun law violations. property damage. On 8 July 2022, Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan and a serving member of the Japanese House of Representatives, was shot to death while speaking at a political event outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara City, Nara Prefecture.
Jul 11, 2022 · 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.
- ykageyama@ap.org
- Japan Reporter
Jul 8, 2022 · A security officer apprehending the suspect in the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday. The weapon, a handmade gun, can be seen as it falls from the suspect’s hand....
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- Emily Cochrane
Jul 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 city of Nara on...
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- Motoko Rich, Makiko Inoue, Hikari Hida,Hisako Ueno
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Jul 8, 2022 · BBC. Summary. 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...
Jul 8, 2022 · The suspect in the shooting of Shinzo Abe on Friday used a gun that he appears to have made himself, according to Japan's public broadcaster NHK, citing police. The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami,...
