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The suspect arrested for shooting former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe told police he had tried to make a bomb, Sputnik reported, quoting the Kyodo news agency report citing investigative sources
The calm veneer that has become a hallmark of Japanese society was ripped away on Friday when the country's former prime minister was killed. Yet the country is also well known for politically motivated violence.
After two days of questioning, Shinzo Abe assassination suspect Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, was today escorted out of Nara Police Station to be taken to the local prosecutors office.
Japan s Liberal Democrats gained at parliamentary elections, sealing a super-majority - and likely allowing slain ex-PM Abe s proposed changes to the constitution to pass