Abe assassination is a rare act of gun violence in Japan Japan, with famously strict laws, has among the world's lowest rates of gun ownership and gun violence. In 2018 there were just nine ...

Abe's killing is "almost incomprehensible" in a country with a firearm death rate of 0.01 per 100,000 and an even lower homicide rate, wrote Iain Overton, the executive director of British NGO ...

The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday stunned and saddened people in a country where firearms are strictly regulated and political violence is extremely rare.

Japan in shock over Shinzo Abe’s assassination. This chart shows how rare gun violence is in the country. Last Updated: July 8, 2022 at 10:40 a.m. ET First Published: July 8, 2022 at 10:39 a.m. ET ...

Ayesha Rascoe talks with Pomona College politics professor Tom Le about the political and social implications of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Homicides in general are rare in Japan, Overton notes, with a rate of 0.26 per 100,000 during that same year. (The U.S. rate was 7.5 per 100,000 as of 2020). It takes roughly 12 steps to buy a gun ...

Ayesha Rascoe talks with Pomona College politics professor Tom Le about the political and social implications of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Homicides in general are rare in Japan, Overton notes, with a rate of 0.26 per 100,000 during that same year. (The U.S. rate was 7.5 per 100,000 as of 2020 ). Yuichi Yamazaki / Getty Images ...

Ayesha Rascoe talks with Pomona College politics professor Tom Le about the political and social implications of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.