A court has convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan’s former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison.
The Wakayama District Court said in the ruling on Wednesday that Ryuji Kimura, 25, was aware of the potential for a fatality in his attack, according to Japan’s Kyodo News agency. The ruling described the attack as a serious challenge to democracy and said it posed a significant danger to many people, according to Kyodo.
