The gunman accused of killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe pleaded guilty Tuesday, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world.

The slaying forced a reckoning in a country with little experience of gun violence, and ignited scrutiny of alleged ties between prominent conservative lawmakers and a secretive sect, the Unification Church.

"Everything is true," Tetsuya Yamagami said at a court in the western city of Nara, admitting to the murder of the country's longest-serving leader in July 2022.

"There is no doubt that I have done all this," Yamagami added, according to the Japan Times .

The 45-year-old was led handcuffed into the room with a rope around his waist.

When the judge asked him to state his name, Yamagami, who was wearing a bl

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