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Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe lies on the ground after being shot during an election rally in July 2022.
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TOKYO – A mother and her teenage daughter were stabbed in Shibuya in August 2022 by an unknown assailant in a random attack.
The alleged culprit turned out to be a 15-year-old girl, who told the police: “I wanted to practise killing my mother.”
