The incident, which happened while Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was at a campaign stop, comes after former leader Shinzo Abe was assassinated last year.
Kishida was delivering a stump speech on behalf of a candidate of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ahead of local elections scheduled for April 23.
, Japan’s former prime minister, at a campaign event last July, when a gunman approached him from behind and fatally shot him. That attack took place in a prefecture just north of where Saturday’s incident occurred. The gunman in Abe’s shooting, Tetsuya Yamagami, told investigators he targeted Abe because he believed the former leader had links to the, an influential religious organization. After a psychiatric evaluation, Yamagami was charged with murder and now awaits trial.
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