Man pleads Guilty to Killing Japan former PM

A man accused of killing former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, told a court in the capital Tokyo that “everything is true”, according to local media. Yamagami used a homemade gun to shoot Abe during a political campaign event in the western city of Nara in 2022. Abe – who was known for his hawkish foreign policy and a signature economic strategy that popularly came to be known as “Abenomics” – was struck several times, and died in hospital later the same day, sending shockwaves around the world.