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Trial for Shinzo Abe's Assassin Set for October 2025

10/28/2025

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Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, will stand trial in Tokyo on October 31, 2025, for fatally shooting Shinzo Abe, Japan's former prime minister, during a July 2022 campaign speech in Nara.
Yamagami allegedly used a homemade gun and said he targeted Abe because of his ties to the Unification Church, which he blames for his mother's financial ruin.
The trial will span 18 hearings, with a verdict due on January 21, 2026.

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Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, will stand trial in Tokyo on October 31, 2025, for fatally shooting Shinzo Abe, Japan's former prime minister, during a July 2022 campaign speech in Nara.
Yamagami allegedly used a homemade gun and said he targeted Abe because of his ties to the Unification Church, which he blames for his mother's financial ruin.
The trial will span 18 hearings, with a verdict due on January 21, 2026.