'Everything is true': Japan ex-PM Shinzo Abe's alleged killer pleads guilty

A man accused of killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe pled guilty Tuesday, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, stood accused of murder and violations of arms control laws for...

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Tetsuya Yamagami, the assassin of Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
A man accused of killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe pled guilty Tuesday, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world.

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, stood accused of murder and violations of arms control laws for allegedly using a handmade weapon to shoot dead Japan's longest-serving leader as he gave a speech in July 2022.

"Everything is true,"


"Everything is true," he said in court.
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