A Japanese man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempting to assassinate former prime minister Fumio Kishida with a pipe bomb at a 2023 campaign event.
A court in Wakayama prefecture in western Japan sentenced 25-year-old Ryuji Kimura to 10 years in prison for attempting to kill Mr Kishida at an election event at a small fishing port in the western city of Wakayama in April 2023.