Suspicious delivery halts Japan court preparations to try Abe shooter

A suspicious box was delivered Monday to a Japanese court scheduled to try the man indicted for murdering former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, prompting visitors to evacuate and leading to the cancellation of trial preparations planned for the day.The cardboard box set off a metal detector at the Nara District Court in western Japan but was later found to have contained petitions seeking leniency for the defendant, Tetsuya Yamagami, a source familiar with the matter said.Yamagami stands accused of fatally shooting Abe with a handmade gun during an election stump speech in the western city of N…READ FULL ARTICLE