Three years after the assassination of Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe shocked the world, the murder trial opened Tuesday with the suspect pleading guilty. "Everything is true," Tetsuya ...

The gunman accused of killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe pleaded guilty Tuesday, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world. The slaying forced a reckoning ...

NARA--Prosecutors on Jan. 13 indicted Tetsuya Yamagami for the murder last July of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, concluding after a lengthy psychiatric evaluation he was of sound mind at the time ...

(Bloomberg) -- A Tokyo court ordered the dissolution of a religious group whose fundraising methods and ties with ruling party politicians came under scrutiny following the assassination of former ...

Tetsuya Yamagami, pictured here in July 2022, was due to appear for his first pre-trial hearing over Shinzo Abe’s murder – Copyright JIJI PRESS/AFP/File STR A pre ...

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, accused of fatally shooting former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, admitted to murder in the first hearing of the case. He was arrested at the scene of the shooting in July 2022 ...

A pre-trial hearing for the man accused of killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was cancelled Monday after a suspicious object was delivered to the court, local media said. Nara District ...

TOKYO (AP) — The brazen assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a handmade gun shocked a nation unused to high-profile political violence. But there has been another surprise ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese prosecutors are expected to formally charge the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder on Friday, his lawyer said. Tetsuya Yamagami was ...