Man Pleads Guilty To Assassinating Former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Man Pleads Guilty To Assassinating Former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe


Justice will soon be served in Japan.

The man who assassinated former Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe plead guilty on Tuesday.

While in court on Tuesday, Tetsuya Yamagami addmitted to assassinating Abe in July of 2022.

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CBS News provided more details on Yamagami’s guilty plea:

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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 in a country with little experience of gun violence, and ignited scrutiny of alleged ties between prominent conservative lawmakers and a secretive sect, the Unification Church.

“Everything is true,” Tetsuya Yamagami said at a court in the western city of Nara, admitting to the murder of the country’s

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