PM Takaichi Slams Shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

26 Aprile 2026

Tokyo, April 26 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Sunday condemned the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner held at a hotel in Washington on Saturday, attended by President Donald Trump. “I was relieved to hear that President Trump was safe after the horrific shooting,” Takaichi said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “Violence will never be tolerated anywhere in the world,” she said. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] 

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