Tetsuya Yamagami, center, holding a weapon, is detained near the site of gunshots in Nara, Japan, on Friday. He is accused of assassinating former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Nara Shimbun / Kyodo News ...

Japan's former prime minister was shot dead on Friday. The assassination has shocked Japan, which has strict gun laws that make it hard to procure firearms. Japan will be "forever changed" by Shinzo ...

Tokyo — As the U.S. gun control debate intensifies, some Americans are looking overseas for ideas on how to prevent mass shootings. Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun violence in the world.

The world is reacting in horror today after former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated during a campaign speech for another Liberal Democratic Party member candidate in the country’s ...

Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 67, was shot and killed in the Japanese city of Nara with a homemade firearm on July 8 while he was campaigning for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on the ...

The improvised weapon that an assassin used to murder former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last Friday suggests both the impact and the limitations of strict gun laws that make it nearly ...

TOKYO (AP) — The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in broad daylight Friday shocked a world that has come to associate Japan with relatively low crime and strict gun control. Japan's ...