Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday.

A Japanese court today sentenced the man who shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life in prison. The man had admitted to assassinating the former Japanese leader, a case that revealed ...

The assassin of Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has been sentenced to life in prison. Tetsuya Yamagami, a 45-year-old man, had already admitted to killing the former Japanese Prime ...

Police officers at the scene where former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot Friday. (Kosuke Okahara/Bloomberg News) In Japan, when police use their guns in the line of duty, it makes ...

A security officer approaches the alleged attacker in the killing of Shinzo Abe after the shooting on Friday.The Asahi Shimbun/Via REUTERS Shinzo Abe was killed with an improvised weapon, police said, ...

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, had admitted to shooting Mr. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister; but his case divided Japan. By Javier C. Hernández and Hisako Ueno China closed off Japanese seafood ...