{"id":46165,"date":"2022-07-08T18:34:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T09:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-shot-japan-who-what-we-know-feared-dead-shooting-former-prime-minister-nara"},"modified":"2022-07-08T21:17:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T12:17:07","slug":"shinzo-abe-what-we-know-so-far-about-killing-of-former-japanese-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46165","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe: what we know so far about killing of former Japanese PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-seven-year-old died following shooting in Nara in western Japan, and a suspect has been detained<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-a-life-in-pictures\">Shinzo Abe \u2013 a life in pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Japan\u2019s former prime minister Shinzo Abe has died <\/strong>after being shot while giving a speech in the western city of Nara on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abe appeared to be in a state of cardiac arrest when he was airlifted to hospital after the shooting. <\/strong>Emergency services said he had been wounded on the right side of his neck and left clavicle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Police arrested a 42-year-old man <\/strong>at the scene. He has been named as Tetsuya Yamagami, from Nara. He is a former member of the maritime self-defence force, according to Fuji TV. He reportedly left the force in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports quoted police as saying that <strong>the weapon thought to have been used in the attack was homemade<\/strong>. Japan\u2019s gun-ownership restrictions do not allow private citizens to have handguns, and licensed hunters may own only rifles.<\/p>\n<p>Abe, Japan\u2019s longest-serving prime minister, <strong>had been in Nara giving a campaign speech ahead of this Sunday\u2019s upper house elections<\/strong> when he was shot. All parties suspended campaigning after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-shot-japan-who-what-we-know-feared-dead-shooting-former-prime-minister-nara\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-seven-year-old died following shooting in Nara in western Japan, and a suspect has been detainedShinzo Abe \u2013 a life in picturesJapan\u2019s former prime minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot while giving a speech in the western city of Nara on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46193,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46165\/revisions\/46193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}