A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced the man charged in the fatal shooting of former prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 to life in prison, Kyodo News Agency reported.

Prosecutors had demanded a life sentence for Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, who has admitted to murdering Abe with a handmade firearm during his stump speech in the western Japan city of Nara, calling the act “an unprecedented crime in the country’s postwar history.”

During Yamagami’s trial...