Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, a military veteran, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder
Shinzo Abe is one of the few international leaders who continues to wield significant influence over his country's foreign policy as they did during their tenure in office.
Perhaps the timing was coincidental, but in the very week that Shinzo Abe became Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, he resigned. The cause was the same that prematurely ended his first premiership, in 2007: chronic ulcerative colitis. Despite slumping polls, a stubbornly sluggish economy, and a nagging scandal over the 2016 sale of land for a school …