The homemade gun used in the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apparently employed an electrical charge to ignite homemade gunpowder that would then fire off a volley of conventional ...

The homemade gun believed to have been used to kill former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears clunky and crude, but the creator clearly had considerable knowledge about weaponry, a firearms expert ...

A Japanese court ordered the dissolution of the Unification Church in Japan, following a government request spurred by the ...

The Unification Church is the first religious group in Japan to face a revocation order under civil law. Two other groups ...

NARA--A legal loophole has prefectural police scrambling in their efforts to pile on an additional charge of illegal use of a weapon in the slaying here of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in ...

A Japanese court has ordered the disbandment of the controversial Unification Church over its connection to the death of ...

Prosecutors and defense lawyers are arguing over whether “religious influence” can be used in the trial of Tetsuya Yamagami, who is accused of murdering former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

These are all far more advanced and deadly than the homemade wood and metal weapon used in 2022 to kill former Japanese Prime ...

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