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Shooting suspect Tetsuya Yamagami, left, leaves a Nara police station on the morning of July 10. © Kyodo

TAKAHITO MURAOKA and HIROYUKI OMOTO, Nikkei staff writers
July 11, 2022 23:46 JST
Updated on July 12, 2022 01:22 JST

TOKYO -- Tetsuya Yamagami, the man suspected of assassinating Shinzo Abe on Friday, had resolved last autumn to kill the former Japanese prime minister, according to a police investigation.

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