Watch: Japanese authorities arrest 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami for the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

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Japanese authorities have arrested Tetsuya Yamagami, a 41-year-old man, and charged him of attempted murder, after former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated on Friday.</p>
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Government officials said that the suspect had been a Maritime Self-Defence Force officer for three years until around 2005.</p>
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Yamagami told investigators he “had grievances” with the former prime minister and had decided to kill him. The gun used in the attack was apparently hand-made. Media footage showed an object with what looked like two barrels wrapped in black tape as the likely murder weapon.</p>
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Though high-ranking assassination attempts in Japan have been rare , they are not without precedent.</p>
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In 1921, Takashi Hara, the architect of the full-fledged party Cabinet system was  stabbed to death at Tokyo Station by a young railway worker. Nine years later, a gunman attacked Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi  at Tokyo Station. He died of his wounds  the following year.</p>
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Today in History: Exactly a century ago today, Prime Minister Takashi Hara was assassinated at Tokyo Station by a Japanese rightwinger. The site is marked at Marunouchi South. He was Japan's first commoner prime minister and the first Christian to hold the office. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakashiHara?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TakashiHara</a> <a href="https://t.co/8gUuaRR476">pic.twitter.com/8gUuaRR476</a></p>
— SNA Japan (@ShingetsuNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShingetsuNews/status/1456045105983361028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In 1932,  Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai was also  killed by a group of armed naval officers, who stormed the Premiers office. The killing is known as the famous “May 15 incident.”</p>
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OTD in 1932, Japan's PM Tsuyoshi Inukai was assassinated in a coup by jr Navy officers; Inukai had tried to reign in the increasingly aggressive Japanese military as PM. The coup meant the end of civilian political control over govt decisions till after WW2. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/History?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#History</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Japan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Japan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WW2?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WW2</a> <a href="https://t.co/lx6Cp1IzGZ">pic.twitter.com/lx6Cp1IzGZ</a></p>
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There was also an attempt on the life of Abe’s grandfather, Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi in 1960. Also in that year, a 17-year old fatally stabbed the head of Japan’s Socialist Party  Inejiro Asanuma.  </p>
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