NARA, Japan (Kyodo) -- The man who fatally shot former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 appealed on Wednesday a Japanese court ruling last month sentencing him to life in prison, his lawyers said.

This file photo taken Jan. 23, 2026, shows the logo of Prudential Life Insurance Co. in Tokyo. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prudential Life Insurance Co. said Wednesday it will voluntarily suspend sales ...

Tetsuya Yamagami is seen being transferred from Nara Prefectural Police's Nara Nishi Police Station on Feb. 14, 2023. (Mainichi) NARA, Japan (Kyodo) -- The man who fatally shot former Prime Minister ...

Japan's Prudential Life Insurance says it will suspend sales of new policies for 90 days from Monday. The move follows company reports of employee misconduct that includes misappropriation of customer ...

Assassin of Japan's Former PM Abe Appeals Life Sentence TOKYO, Feb 4 (Reuters) - A Japanese ‌man has appealed against ‌his life sentence for fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a ...

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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 ...

Abe was killed by Tetsuya Yamagami in 2022 while campaigning in the city of Nara, a shooting that shocked Japan, where gun crime is almost unheard of A court in Japan has sentenced the assassin of ...

NARA, Japan - The gunman charged with killing Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe was found guilty and jailed for life on Jan 21, more than three years after the broad-daylight assassination ...

NARA, Japan — A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced a 45-year-old man to life imprisonment for fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, public broadcaster NHK reported, in an incident that ...

Tetsuya Yamagami shot Abe in broad daylight with a gun he fashioned at home, while the former leader was giving a campaign speech on a street in the western city of Nara in 2022. Abe had stepped down ...