The suspect accused of assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was formally charged with murder Friday.
Yamagami underwent a mental evaluation for the last six months, which showed he is mentally fit to stand trial, prosecutors said, per AP., AP reports, citing the Nara District Court.Masaaki Furukawa, one of Yamagami's lawyers, told the AP that Yamagami will have to take responsibility for the shooting and that his lawyers will seek to reduce his sentence.died on July 9, 2022, after he was shot while giving a campaign speech in the city of Nara. He was 67.
Yamagami reportedly targeted Abe over his apparent ties to the Unification Church, which he alleged bankrupted his mother,Yamagami wrote in a letter before the shooting that Abe was "nothing more than one of the Unification Church's most powerful sympathizers," according to the
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