Shooter of former Japanese PM Abe appeals life sentence
Tetsuya Yamagami, the man who fatally shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022, filed an appeal on Wednesday against his life sentence.
Tetsuya Yamagami, the man who fatally shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022, filed an appeal on Wednesday against his life sentence.
During the hearing at the Nara District Court, Tetsuya Yamagami said, "It is true. There is no doubt that I did it." Yamagami (45) is accused of killing Abe with a handmade firearm during an election stump speech in Japan's Nara on July 8, 2022.
While Abe's death sent shockwaves throughout the world, this also revealed a dark side of Japanese politics as many lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party are not only members but also patrons of the UC. This malaise has spread so deep that it has affected the lives of many common men as politicians patronise the UC and use the donation money on projects that go against the interests of the citizens and the nation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday attended the state funeral of assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo.
Some 20,000 police officers have been reportedly being deployed for the security at the event being held at the Nippon Budokan arena in central Tokyo which is estimated to cost taxpayers $1.65 billion yen ($11 million).
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced cash payouts to citizens. Alarmed by the rising deaths and the spectre of the collapse of the medical system, Japan is scrambling to expand testing with drive-through facilities and general practitioners are helping to collect samples. It conducted about 52,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests in March, or just 16 per cent the number carried out in South Korea. This strategy made it difficult to trace the disease as it spread in Tokyo and other big cities.
The death toll now stands at 194, including those from a cruise ship that was quarantined in Yokohama near Tokyo, the latest figures showed.
Despite Shinzo Abe's bold declaration of the stimulus package, this is no answer to the livelihood crisis. The package is unlikely to assuage public anxiety, despite the Prime Minister's admission that the economy is facing the greatest crisis since the end of World War II. Where Mr Abe seems to have erred is that concerns were raised even two months ago over the repercussions of the coronavirus crisis on the Japanese economy, but Mr Abe delayed in taking timely action.
The number of novel coronavirus infections in Japan reached 7,370 with 123 deaths on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins data tracker.
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