A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison, court officials said.

The man who threw a homemade bomb at then-Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in 2023 got 10 years in prison Wednesday for attempted murder. Kishida was not hurt.

A court found the assailant guilty of attempted murder in the 2023 attack on Fumio Kishida, then prime minister.

A man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for attempting to kill Japan's ex-prime minister Fumio Kishida with a pipe bomb in 2023, local media said. Kishida was unharmed in the attack with a homemade device at a campaign event where assailant Ryuji Kimura,