TOKYO — Three people, including two police officers, were killed in Nagano in central Japan on Thursday, and a suspect with a rifle and knife was holed up inside a building, police said.

Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun violence in the world. There were more than four firearm homicides in the U.S. per 100,000 people during 2019, compared to almost zero in Japan.

Police officers stand guard on a street leading to a building where a man was holed up in Nakano, in central Japan, on Friday. (JIJI Press/AFP/Getty Images) ...

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