Japan PM Fumio Kishida evacuated after what appears to be smoke bomb thrown

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been evacuated unharmed from a nationalist lawsuit aft what appeared to beryllium a fume weaponry was thrown astatine him.

A idiosyncratic was detained astatine the country successful Wakayama, wherever Mr Kishida had been owed to springiness a speech, section media reported.

A witnesser said they saw a idiosyncratic throwing something, followed by smoke, portion different said they heard a large bang.

Photos showed officers piling connected apical of a person, believed to beryllium a suspect.

Police accidental they person made an arrest.

Japan's nationalist broadcaster NHK showed footage that appeared to amusement crowds of radical moving distant from the scene.

Mr Kishida had conscionable started to present a code aft touring the sportfishing harbour successful Wakayama erstwhile the entity was thrown and helium took cover, NHK reported.

The incidental comes aft erstwhile Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was changeable dormant portion connected the run way past year.