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Trial of shooter of ex-Japan PM Abe

Akie Abe (C), widow of assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leaves the Nara District Court in Nara on Dec. 3, 2025, after attending for the first time the trial of Tetsuya Yamagami, indicted for fatally shooting Abe during an election stump speech in the western Japan city in 2022.

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[Breaking News]Trial of shooter of ex-Japan PM Abe

NARA, Japan, Oct. 28 Kyodo - A car (white) apparently carrying the man accused of shooting and killing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters the Nara District Court in Nara on Oct. 28, 2025, before the first hearing of his trial. Tetsuya Yamagami was indicted for fatally shooting Abe during an election stump speech in the western Japan city in 2022. (Kyodo)

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Trial of shooter of ex-Japan PM Abe

A car (white) apparently carrying the man accused of shooting and killing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters the Nara District Court in Nara on Oct. 28, 2025, before the first hearing of his trial. Tetsuya Yamagami was indicted for fatally shooting Abe during an election stump speech in the western Japan city in 2022.

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Trial of shooter of ex-Japan PM Abe

A car apparently carrying the man accused of shooting and killing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters the Nara District Court in Nara on Oct. 28, 2025, before the first hearing of his trial. Tetsuya Yamagami was indicted for fatally shooting Abe during an election stump speech in the western Japan city in 2022.

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LIBERATING THE SHAMISEN

LIBERATING THE SHAMISEN,Tsugaru shamisen, Tsugaru jongara bushi, Tsugaru shamisen player, Susumu Yamagami, traditional culture, Japanese culture, sledding, performance, live music, Kassai Aomori=Date:1994, Place:Aomori Prefecture,JAPAN

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Murder suspect held after mall attack leaves 1 dead, 7 injured

TSUCHIURA, Japan - Police officers examine the scene outside the Sanparu shopping mall in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, where eight people, including a police officer, were stabbed in the morning of March 23. A 24-year-old man, Masahiro Kanagawa, who had been wanted by police in connection with a murder case, was arrested later in the day for allegedly committing the stabbing spree. One of those injured in the attack, 27-year-old Takahiro Yamagami, died later in hospital.

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Australia national baseball team

David Nilsson (front R), manager of the Australia national baseball team, and Shingo Yamagami (front L), Japanese ambassador to Australia, pose for photos during the team's send-off party at the Japanese consul general's official residence in Sydney on Nov. 4, 2022. Australia and Japan will play two World Baseball Classic warmup games in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo in November.

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Abe shooter sent to prosecutors

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a police vehicle (C) carrying Tetsuya Yamagami, the man who fatally shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leaving a police station in Nara, western Japan, on July 10, 2022, as he is sent to prosecutors on suspicion of murder.

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Abe shooter sent to prosecutors

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a police vehicle (top R) carrying Tetsuya Yamagami, the man who fatally shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, arriving at the Nara District Public Prosecutors Office in Nara, western Japan, on July 10, 2022. Yamagami was sent to prosecutors on suspicion of murder.

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Abe shooter sent to prosecutors

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a police vehicle (C) carrying Tetsuya Yamagami, the man who fatally shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leaving a police station in Nara, western Japan, on July 10, 2022, as he is sent to prosecutors on suspicion of murder.

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Former Japanese PM Abe dies after being fatally shot in Nara

STORY: Former Japanese PM Abe dies after being fatally shot in Nara DATELINE: July 9, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:01 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the shooting scene 2. various of the hospital that received the former prime minister STORYLINE: Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead on Friday after being shot twice by an ex-Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) worker while he was delivering a speech in the western prefecture of Nara. Abe, 67, died at 5:03 p.m. local time, the hospital that received the former prime minister said at a press conference in the afternoon. Abe, also former leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was shot twice from behind at 11:30 a.m. local time by Tetsuya Yamagami, a former worker for the MSDF and resident of the western city while speaking in front of Kintetsu Railway's Yamato-Saidaiji Station, ahead of Sunday's upper house election, local police and firefighters said. The 41-year-old Yamagami, who worked for MSDF for t

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Mitsubishi Aircraft to market MRJ in Latin America

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. America Inc. Chairman Masao Yamagami gives an interview to Kyodo News in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 10, 2016. Yamagami said the firm hopes to market its Mitsubishi Regional Jet, Japan's first domestically produced jet, in Latin America. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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MRJ may begin flight testing in U.S. in summer

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. America Inc. Chairman Masao Yamagami (R) and Hideyuki Kamiya, head of strategic marketing at Mitsubishi Aircraft, announce at a press conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 10, 2016, that the company is eager to start flight-testing of its Mitsubishi Regional Jet, Japan's first domestically produced jet, in the United States in the summer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mitsubishi Aircraft pitches regional jet in Cleveland

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. Executive Vice President Masao Yamagami (L) meets the press in Cleveland, the United States, on May 12, 2015. The Japanese company made a pitch for its Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) at the Regional Aircraft Association convention held in the city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mitsubishi aims to win passenger jet orders from Europe

Masao Yamagami, executive vice president of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., poses for a photo with a model airplane at an aviation fair in the U.S. city of Cleveland on May 12, 2015. He said the company will try to receive orders from Europe for its Mitsubishi Regional Jet, the first Japanese-built passenger jet, by the end of the year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-South Korea trade row at WTO

Shingo Yamagami (R), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau, and Junichi Ihara, ambassador of the Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva, speak at the World Trade Organization headquarters in the Swiss city on July 24, 2019. The issue of Japan's tighter controls on exports to South Korea was taken to the WTO. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WTO meeting over Japan's export curbs on S. Korea

Shingo Yamagami, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau, meets the press after the first day of a WTO General Council meeting convened in Geneva on July 23, 2019, to discuss Japan's imposition of restrictions on some key exports for South Korea's high-tech industry, a step seen by Seoul as retaliation in an ongoing dispute over wartime labor. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo