Man Who Attacked Former Japanese PM Convicted, Sentenced To 10 Years
A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event. In the ruling, the Wakayama District Court sentenced Ryuji Kimura to 10 years in prison, according to Japan's public television and other media, without specifying which of the five charges he was found guilty of. The court did not immediately confirm the ruling by phone. Kimura, 25, was charged with attempted murder for the April 15, 2023 attack on Kishida at a small fishing port in the western Japenese city of Wakayama. Ryuji also faces four other charges including violations of laws on explosives and other weapons.
