Let's put that in context shall we: the last Japanese PM assassination before Abe was close to 100 years ago.

Technically true, but looking it up, it seems the last PM was killed in 1936. Additionally, in the 192x and 193x many high ranking politicians died, of which were many PM or former PM.

I don't think these people were in the same area all those times.

Could you list them please? Some googling got me the following, which includes survivors and non prime-ministers.

* November 14, 1930, Yukio Hamaguchi

* May 15, 1932, 11 Prime Minister Takeshi Inuyo

* July 14, 1960, Nobusuke Kishi (survived an assassination attempt)

* October 12, 1960, left-wing Japanese Rep. Inajiro Asanuma

* October 25, 2002, Ishii Hiroki (opposition leader)

* April 17, 2007, the mayor of Nagasaki, Kazucho Ito

* July 2022: Shinzo Abe

I started with

https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2022-07-08-looking-back-on...

2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzo_Abe

1936 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sait%C5%8D_Makoto

1936 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_Korekiyo (same incident as previous)

1932 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukai_Tsuyoshi

1931 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamaguchi_Osachi (initially survived assassination attempt, but succumbed to his wounds)

1921 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hara_Takashi

1909 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C5%8D_Hirobumi

See also: 1878 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ckubo_Toshimichi#cite_not...