Abe Shooter Cites Despair, Crisis as Triggers for Attack

Nara, Nov. 25 (Jiji Press)--Tetsuya Yamagami, on trial for the 2022 murder of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said in court Tuesday that he felt despair and a sense of crisis over Abe's video message in 2021 to a group affiliated with the Unification Church, against which he reportedly had a grudge. During the 11th hearing of his lay-judge trial at Nara District Court, the 45-yea...