A 25-year-old man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday over the attempted murder of then-Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in the city of Wakayama in 2023.
The Wakayama District Court handed down the sentence to Ryuji Kimura for throwing an explosive — apparently a homemade pipe bomb — at Kishida on April 15, 2023, at the Saikazaki fishing port while he was making a campaign stop for a parliamentary by-election. The explosion injured two people in the crowd.
The incident occurred less than a year after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot in July 2022 during an election campaign for an Upper House election.
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