CRIME & LAW

Abe Killing Defendant Pleads Guilty in Tokyo

On the first day of his trial, Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, pleaded guilty in a Tokyo court, saying “everything is true” about the 2022 shooting of former prime minister Shinzo Abe with a homemade gun at a Nara campaign event. Investigators say he blamed Abe for promoting the Unification Church, which he alleges drove his mother’s 100 million yen donations and the family’s ruin. The case spurred probes, four minister resignations, and a Tokyo court’s order to disband the church. The trial runs to January; Yamagami disputes arms-law charges. Japan has tightened homemade-gun rules.

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