Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, admitted to fatally shooting Abe in 2022 in an attack that stunned Japan and drew global condemnation.
A Japanese court has sentenced the man who killed former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment.
Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, admitted to fatally shooting Abe in 2022 in an attack that stunned Japan and drew global condemnation.
Prosecutors had asked the court to impose a life sentence, describing the assassination as “unprecedented in our post-war history” and citing its profound and far-reaching impact on society.
Yamagami’s defence lawyers had argued for a lesser sentence, seeking a maximum prison term of 20 years.
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