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4 months ago

The church popularly known as Moonies came under scrutiny after the 2022 killing of ex-PM Shinzo Abe.

The director and ex-Japanese Red Army militant discusses his new film Escape, about the anarchist fugitive Satoshi Kirishima, the frustrations of radical film-making and progressive politics

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5 months ago

Takaichi is estimated to have secured a two-thirds majority in Japan's lower house, the best result for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since elections in 2017 under former Prime Minister Shinzo A…

6 months ago

The man who killed Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 has been sentenced to life in prison.
Abe was serving as a regular lawmaker after leaving the prime minister's job when he was killed in 2022 while campaigning in the western city of Nara.
A court heard that Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, had been 'determined' to shoot Abe when he used a handmade gun to kill Japan's longest-serving leader during a campaign speech in July 2022.

Abe was killed in 2022 while campaigning in the western city of Nara

A Japanese court has sentenced a man who admitted assassinating the former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment …

The 45-year-old is set to be sentenced on Wednesday, but the question of what punishment he deserves has divided public opinion in Japan.

7 months ago

Tetsuya Yamagami said during his trial that he felt '"deeply sorry" towards Abe's widow Akie.

8 months ago

Tetsuya Yamagami (pictured), 45, allegedly gunned down Japan's longest serving prime minister as Mr Abe was giving a speech in the Japanese city of Nara in July 2022.

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