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The gun attacked occurred in a country where tough laws mean it is nearly unheard of for citizens to buy or own firearms.

Abes death raises security questions as Japan mourns

Half of the upper house of parliament is being elected on Sunday.

TOKYO – The man suspected of killing former Japanese premier Shinzo Abe with a hand-made gun on Friday (July 8) could have made the weapon in a day or two after obtaining readily available materials such as wood and metal pipes, analysts say. The attack showed gun violence cannot be totally eliminated even in a country where tough gun laws...

A top police official has acknowledged possible security lapses that allowed an assassin to fire his gun in...

Shinzo Abe murder: Tetsuya Yamagamis gun had a pistol grip and two pipes covered in black tape.

A top police official on Saturday acknowledged possible security lapses that allowed an assassin to fire his gun into former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while he was addressing a campaign rally, raising questions how could the attacker get so close behind him. Abe was shot in the western city of Nara on Friday and airlifted to a hospital but died of blood loss. Police arrested the attacker, a former member of Japans navy, at the scene. Police confiscated his homemade gun and several other...

TOKYO (AP) - Japanese went to the polls Sunday in the shadow of the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, gunned down while making a campaign speech for the governing party that cruises t...

'Making of guns and bombs can be learned off the internet.'

The gun attacked occurred in a country where tough laws mean it is nearly unheard of for citizens to buy or own firearms.