India, Jan. 21 -- A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, to life imprisonment for assassinating former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, an act that shocked the nation over three years ago, according to NHK.

Yamagami was arrested immediately in July 2022 after fatally shooting Abe with a homemade firearm while the ex-prime minister was delivering a campaign speech in Nara, western Japan. At the time, Abe was 67 years old and had been Japan's longest-serving prime minister.

From the very first court hearing at Nara District Court in October, Yamagami admitted to the murder, making a guilty verdict almost certain. Prosecutors requested a life sentence, describing the assassination as an "extremely grave incident that is un...