Tokyo — As the U.S. gun control debate intensifies, some Americans are looking overseas for ideas on how to prevent mass shootings. Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun violence in the world.

Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 67, was shot and killed in the Japanese city of Nara with a homemade firearm on July 8 while he was campaigning for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on the ...

TOKYO (AP) — The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in broad daylight Friday shocked a world that has come to associate Japan with relatively low crime and strict gun control. Japan's ...

The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is sending shockwaves around the world and especially through Japan, a country where gun regulations are strict and shootings are ...

The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday sent shock waves around the globe and especially in Japan — a country with some of the world’s strictest gun ownership laws and ...

The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has shocked Japan, a country with one of the world’s lowest rates of gun crime due to its strict laws on gun ownership. Abe was shot dead ...

Abe, who resigned due to health issues in 2020, was fatally shot in broad daylight on Friday while speaking at a campaign rally in the city of Nara. The police detained a suspect and retrieved a gun ...