Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Assassinated During Campaign Event
- Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving modern leader, was shot dead at a campaign address yesterday by a 41-year-old man.
- On Saturday, a continuous line of mourners visited the site of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s violent murder in the western city of Nara, an extraordinary act of political violence that horrified the nation
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- A 41-year-old man shot dead Japan’s longest-serving modern leader at a campaign address on Friday morning, in an incident condemned by the political establishment as an attack on democracy itself.
- “I’m absolutely surprised that this happened in Nara,” Natsumi Niwa, a 50-year-old housewife, said after leaving flowers at the scene of the killing at a downtown train station with her 10-year-old son.
- According to Niwa, Abe, a conservative and the author of “Abenomics” policies aimed at reviving the Japanese economy, inspired the naming of her son, Masakuni, with his rallying cry of Japan as a “beautiful nation.” In Japanese, “Kuni” signifies “nation.”
- On the penultimate day of campaigning before the election for the upper chamber of parliament, the ruling alliance led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, an Abe disciple, is anticipated to win.
- “A tsunami of sympathy votes today might enhance the margin of victory,” Teneo vice president James Brady said in a letter. Before the killing, the Liberal Democratic Party, which Abe still controlled, was anticipated to win seats.
- “A tsunami of sympathy votes today might enhance the margin of victory,” James Brady, vice president at consultancy company Teneo, said in a letter. Before the killing, the Liberal Democratic Party, in which Abe held significant influence, was anticipated to win seats.
- In a message, James Brady, vice president at advising company Teneo, said, “A tsunami of sympathy votes now might enhance the margin of victory.” Before the killing, the Liberal Democratic Party, in which Abe still had great power, was anticipated to win seats.
- “A tsunami of sympathy votes today might enhance the margin of victory,” Teneo vice president James Brady said in a letter. Before the killing, the Liberal Democratic Party, which Abe still controlled, was anticipated to win seats.
- A motorcade believed to be transporting the politician’s remains departed the hospital early Saturday. Local media speculated that it was on its way to his Tokyo home.