Yamagami allegedly shot Abe in 2022 with a homemade firearm during an election speech because of a grudge against the controversial Unification Church , which he believed had clos

A man accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to go on trial on Tuesday, three years after the assassination of Japan's longest-serving premier stunned a nation where gun crime and political violence are rare.

The high-profile trial opened on the day of a summit meeting of two of Abe's former allies, incumbent Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Donald Trump.

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, was charged with killing Mr. Abe with a homemade gun during an election campaign event in 2022.

The man accused of assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe pleaded guilty at the start of his trial on Tuesday. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, is accused of shooting Japan's longest-serving post-war prime minister with a homemade firearm during an election campaign speech in 2022.

A man accused of killing former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, told a court in the capital Tokyo that "everything is true",

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

Prosecutors say Tetsuya Yamagami wanted to draw attention to the Unification Church by killing the influential former prime minister.