Man pleads guilty to Japan ex-prime minister's murder: "Everything is true"
"There is no doubt that I have done all this," Tetsuya Yamagami said in court, admitting to the murder of the country's longest-serving leader in 2022.
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"There is no doubt that I have done all this," Tetsuya Yamagami said in court, admitting to the murder of the country's longest-serving leader in 2022.
Tetsuya Yamagami allegedly shot and killed Shinzo Abe in early July but underwent a months-long mental evaluation that prosecutors say showed he's fit to stand trial.
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed at a campaign speech Friday. Cecile Shea, a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, joined CBS News to discuss how the assassination impacts domestic politics and foreign relations.
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The vice president is leading the U.S. delegation at the memorial for Abe, the former Japanese leader who was fatally shot in July.
Tokyo police refused to comment, including on a report that a police officer was caught in the fire.
World leaders are offering their condolences after former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot during a speech Friday. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports.
Current leader says he's urged police "to carry out a thorough inspection and fix what needs to be fixed" after brazen murder of former premiere at campaign event.
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The funeral service at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo was private, but that didn't stop many people in the shocked and grieving nation from coming to say farewell.
Abe, the longest-serving political leader in Japan's history, was fatally shot while delivering a campaign speech on Friday.
Japan is holding elections in the shadow of the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, gunned down while making a campaign speech.
Abe's assassination ahead of Sunday's parliamentary election shocked the nation and raised questions over whether security for the former prime minister was adequate.
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Abe, a popular conservative leader who resigned in 2020 for health reasons, was shot as he gave an outdoor campaign speech. A suspect is in custody.
Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun violence in the world, making the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a particularly extraordinary act of violence. Professor Nancy Snow joined CBS News' Anne-Marie Green and Nancy Chen with more on the reaction.
The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is especially shocking in a country where gun violence is extremely rare. CBS News' Tanya Rivero and Michelle Miller talk with Iain Overton, the executive director of Action on Armed Violence, to discuss Japan's strict gun laws and the reaction to this deadly shooting.
President Biden released a statement Friday following the shooting death of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. CBS News correspondent Christina Ruffini joined Nancy Chen and Anne-Marie Green to discuss the president's reaction as well as his upcoming remarks and executive orders on abortion rights.
The White House says it's "shocked and saddened" over the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The 67-year-old was shot during a campaign event in Nara, Japan. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports from Tokyo, and CBS News anchors Tanya Rivero and Michelle Miller speak with author and lawyer Gordon Chang about how unprecedented this attack is in Japan.
Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed during a campaign event in the city of Nara. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer is in Tokyo with more on the shocking attack and the reaction pouring in from world leaders.
Japan and the rest of the world were shocked by the assassination of former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe during a campaign speech. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports from Tokyo, and then Michael Penn, president of Shingetshu News Agency, joins "CBS News Mornings" with more reaction.
A gunman shot and killed former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a campaign event. The country has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer joins "CBS News Mornings" with more.
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