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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world A man accused of killing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by firing a homemade gun at him during an election stump speech in 2022, pleaded guilty to murder in his first trial hearing Tuesday, Kyodo reported. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, is expected to seek leniency on the grounds that his family had broken down under the influence of the group formerly known as the Unification Church, accordingBloomberg Terminal to Kyodo. He filed his plea in a proceeding at the district court in Nara, the temple city near Kyoto where Abe was shot.
