THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 10, 2022 at 18:29 JST
The Nagano Prefectural Police Headquarters and the Nagano prefectural government office are located in this building. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A man in Shizuoka Prefecture is accused of threatening to kill an Upper House election candidate in neighboring Nagano Prefecture shortly after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in Nara.
“You’re next,” the suspect said in phone calls to the campaign office of Sanshiro Matsuyama, a candidate of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party running in the Nagano prefectural constituency, according to police.
Matsuyama, a rookie candidate, had worked in the entertainment business for years in the prefecture, including as a radio personality.
The first phone call was at around 11:50 a.m., when news was spreading about the attack on Abe in Nara during a campaign speech around 11:30 a.m. on July 8.
The second threatening call came at around 12:25 p.m.
Police learned that the calls came from the cellphone of Akira Uematsu, 67, a part-time employee who lives in the city of Shizuoka.
The Nagano prefectural police’s Nagano-Chuo Station arrested Uematsu on July 9 on suspicion of intimidation.
He has reportedly admitted to the allegations.
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