The police have arrested a suspect, 42-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami, and officials said the police retrieved a gun from the scene.
Abe, the country’s longest-serving prime minister, was in power for two terms — 2006 to 2007 and 2012 to 2020.
The attack rocked the country, which has some of the world’s strongest gun laws and is widely considered one of the safest places on the planet.
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