Shinzo Abe: Man pleads guilty to killing Japan's former prime minister

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, shot Abe multiple times as he appeared at a political event in 2022.

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Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, told a court in the capital Tokyo that "everything is true", according to local media.

Yamagami used a homemade gun to shoot Abe during a political campaign event in the western city of Nara in 2022.

Abe - who was known for his hawkish foreign policy and a signature economic strategy that popularly came to be known as "Abenomics" - was struck several times, and died in hospital later the same day, sending shockwaves around the world.

The assassination shone a spotlight on links between Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Unification Church, more popularly known as the "Moonies".