Shinzo Abe

  • A day after the brazen assassination of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a campaign speech on a city street, security at the event — or the lack thereof — is now under the spotlight of scrutiny. Questions have swirled in security circles over how the suspect was able to get so close to Abe…

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  • The body of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was returned to Tokyo on Saturday after he was fatally shot during a campaign speech in western Japan a day earlier. Abe was attacked in the city of Nara and airlifted to a local hospital but died of blood loss despite emergency treatment including massive blood…

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  • Japan has been brought to a standstill by the news that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died after being shot on the campaign trail for Sunday’s upper house elections. A lone gunman attacked Abe, who was pronounced dead at a hospital in Nara from wounds in his chest and neck. This is a tragedy that…

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