On July 8, 2022, in Nara, Japan, Shinzo Abe was shot twice with a homemade shotgun by Tetsuya Yamagami. Despite Abe’s towering status in Japanese politics — a former prime minister, and Japan’s ...

NARA--The first shot fired by a suspected gunman apparently missed former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but the second blast caused the veteran politician to collapse, according to a 17-year-old witness.

As Abe was whisked to the hospital by medical helicopter, Fukushima gathered a team and collected as much blood as he could get. Abe was transported to 20 kilometers away from the incident site.

The two gunshots heard when former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead in Nara in July ... on the security and protection issues at the shooting site said security officers didn’t instantly ...

The homemade gun used in the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apparently employed an electrical charge to ignite homemade gunpowder that would then fire off a volley of conventional ...

NARA--Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest serving postwar prime ... murder and seized the weapon believed to have been used in the shooting, investigative sources said. The sources said the gun appeared ...

An abrupt change in former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s election campaign schedule played right into the hands of his suspected killer. Abe traveled twice to Nara during the campaign for the July ...

July 8 will mark two years since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed while ... happened around the first anniversary of the shooting. “I haven’t been able to ‘digest ...

Former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has been rushed to hospital after collapsing in a suspected shooting in Nara city. An NHK reporter at the scene says she heard a sound like gunfire at around 11:30 ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged to continue efforts to realize policy goals championed by his slain predecessor Shinzo Abe, who was fatally shot on the campaign trail two years ago. “Living ...

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The prime minister of Japan knows he has big shoes to fill as he prepares to meet President Donald Trump, whose ...