Japan's Nara City Court has sentenced 45-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami to life imprisonment.
Modern.az reports that he was accused of assassinating Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022.
Prosecutors had also sought a life sentence for Yamagami, who confessed his guilt in the murder. They called Abe's assassination "an unprecedented crime" in the country's post-war history.