{"id":76038,"date":"2026-01-21T14:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/21\/tetsuya-yamagami-assassinated-shinzo-abe-japan-life-sentence"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:21:18","slug":"shinzo-abes-killer-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-over-shooting-of-japanese-former-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76038","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe\u2019s killer sentenced to life in prison over shooting of Japanese former PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abe was killed by Tetsuya Yamagami in 2022 while campaigning in the city of Nara, a shooting that shocked Japan, where gun crime is almost unheard of<\/p>\n<p>A court in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> has sentenced the assassin of former prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">Shinzo Abe<\/a> to life in prison \u2013 a case that shocked the public and exposed politicians\u2019 ties to an influential religious group.<\/p>\n<p>Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, had earlier pleaded guilty to killing Abe in July 2022 as he was making an election campaign speech in the western city of Nara.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/21\/tetsuya-yamagami-assassinated-shinzo-abe-japan-life-sentence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abe was killed by Tetsuya Yamagami in 2022 while campaigning in the city of Nara, a shooting that shocked Japan, where gun crime is almost unheard ofA court in Japan has sentenced the assassin of former prime minister Shinzo Abe to life in prison \u2013 a c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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-76038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76038","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76039,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76038\/revisions\/76039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}