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Man Pleads Guilty To Assassinating Former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Justice will soon be served in Japan.
The man who assassinated former Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe plead guilty on Tuesday.
While in court on Tuesday, Tetsuya Yamagami addmitted to assassinating Abe in July of 2022.
CBS News provided more details on Yamagami’s guilty plea:
The gunman accused of killing Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe pleaded guilty Tuesday, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world.
The slaying forced a reckoning in a country with little experience of gun violence, and ignited scrutiny of alleged ties between prominent conservative lawmakers and a secretive sect, the Unification Church.
“Everything is true,” Tetsuya Yamagami said at a court in the western city of Nara, admitting to the murder of the country’s longest-serving leader in July 2022.
“There is no doubt that I have done all this,” Yamagami added, according to the Japan Times.
The 45-year-old was led handcuffed into the room with a rope around his waist.
The late Shinzo Abe was a close friend of President Trump.
On Monday the new prime minister of Japan gave Abe’s prized golfing club to President Trump as a honorary gift.
Take a look:
Incredibly wholesome moment as Trump receives Shinzo Abe’s putter as a gift from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
“Did he play with it?”
“Yes.”
“Such a wonderful man — such a wonderful man.”
Shinzo was President Trump’s favorite foreign leader. pic.twitter.com/mTIb2J0mY2
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 28, 2025
BBC reported more on Japan’s new prime minister’s gifts to Trump:
Ahead of their meeting on Wednesday, Trump said he was sure that he would have a “fantastic relationship” with Takaichi, who had a strong connection with former PM Shinzo Abe, a Trump favourite who was shot dead in 2022.
“She was a great ally and friend of Abe, who was my friend… He was one of the best… I know they were very close, and I think philosophically they were close, which is very good,” he told reporters while flying over to Japan from Malaysia on Tuesday.
Trump is spending a week in Asia. He will leave Japan for South Korea on Wednesday, and is expected to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping there on Thursday.
The meeting with Trump was seen as a critical early test for Takaichi, who was elected as prime minister by Japanese lawmakers earlier this month.
Both countries have long been allies, but navigating a relationship with a fickle Trump, who has in the past appeared to waver in his commitment to Japan, lies at the core of the country’s foreign policy.
On Wednesday, Takaichi described Trump as a “partner in a new golden era”, and praised his role in bringing peace to the Middle East. She announced that Japan would be nominating him for the Nobel peace prize.
She also presented Trump with a collection of golf-related gifts, according to Trump’s assistant Margo Martin.
These included a golf bag signed by Hideki Matsuyama, the first male Japanese golfer to win a major golf championship, as well as a putter used by Abe. They also signed two caps printed with the words: Japan is back.
In turn, Trump described her as a “close friend” and described the US alliance with Japan as a “beautiful friendship” that was “born out of the ashes of a terrible war”. He also announced he had approved the first delivery of long-awaited US missiles for F-35 fighter jets to Japan, which would take place this week.