Japan: Man gets 10-year jail for attack on ex-PM

A man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for attempting to kill Japan's then prime minister Fumio Kishida with a pipe bomb in 2023, a local court said.

- Agence France-Presse

TOKYO: Kishida was unharmed in the attack with a homemade device at a campaign event where assailant Ryuji Kimura, now 25, was arrested at the scene. The incident, in western Japan, came less than a year after former premier Shinzo Abe was assassinated in July 2022 on the campaign trail.