Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday indicted a 24-year-old man on charges including attempted murder in the April bomb attack on Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Japanese media reported.
Kishida was campaigning in Wakayama City when a man threw a homemade pipe bomb at him. Kishida was not injured, but two other people were slightly injured.
Japan’s Kyodo News reported that after a three-month psychiatric evaluation of the suspect, prosecutors said Ryuji Kimura, 24, was mentally fit to stand trial and said the bomb used in the attack was It was determined to be lethal.
Kyodo News reported that court records show that Kimura may have been upset that he could not apply to run in the 2022 election.
The attack comes nearly a year after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead during an election campaign.
Gun and bomb violence in Japan is extremely rare, and the attacks on Abe and Kishida shocked many in the country.