‘LIFE IN PRISON’: Court Rejects Leniency for Assassin of Shinzo Abe – OXY NEWS CHANNEL

 In this final update from OXY NEWS CHANNEL, we detail the sentencing of Tetsuya Yamagami in the Nara District Court. As of January 21, 2026, the 45-year-old has been handed a life sentence for the July 2022 shooting of former PM Shinzo Abe. We examine the judge's ruling, which dismissed the "religious abuse" defense, and the political fallout that saw the Unification Church stripped of its tax-exempt status. We also feature the reaction from Abe’s widow, Akie Abe, as Japan seeks closure on its most shocking postwar political crime.