The ex Japaneze Prime Minister was shot by a lone gunman with a homemade gun that was extremely hard to reload, though it was the second shot that did the damage.
As I recall from many years ago, a Japanese Prime Minister was knifed to death at the podium when he was delivering a speech. There have been a number of terrorist groups in Japan's past including the sarin attack on a Tokyo subway in 1995 by Aum Shinrikyo.
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