The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in broad daylight Friday shocked a world that has come to associate Japan with relatively low crime and strict gun control. Japan’s longest ...

Japan is a country of more than 127 million people, but it rarely sees more than 10 gun deaths a year. Culture is one reason for the low rate, but gun control is a major one, too. Japan has a long ...

7 in a joint investigation by multiple police forces on suspicion of selling ornamental guns after modifying them ... of possessing illegal firearms. (Japanese original by Rokuhei Sato, Kyushu ...