In accordance to the Reports, Shinzo Abe, the country’s longest-serving PM who controlled Japanese politics for years before being fatally shot at a campaign rally last week, was said to be leaving Japan on Tuesday.
By early morning, long lines had developed outside the Zojoji temple in central Tokyo, which served as the location of Abe’s burial, with some individuals wearing black attire and others sporting casual attire and backpacks. Only relatives and close friends are permitted at the ceremony itself, which begins at 1:00 p.m. (0400 GMT).
On Monday evening, hundreds of mourners entered the temple in the sweltering summer heat to pay their respects to Abe, who passed away at the age of 67. In a country where political violence and gun crime are incredibly rare, his assassination on Friday by an unemployed guy brandishing a handmade gun surprised the public.
After the funeral, the car carrying Abe’s body will go through “downtown Tokyo while Japanese flags were wrapped in black mourning ribbons”.
The parade will pass through Nagatacho, the capital’s political district, which includes important sites like the parliament building, which Abe first entered as a junior legislator in 1993, and the building where he served as prime minister for two terms, the longer of which was from 2012 to 2020.
International leaders have paid their condolences, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a brief, impromptu detour on Monday morning to express his respects. Janet Yellen, the US Treasury Secretary, and William Lai, the vice president of Taiwan, who was visiting privately as a friend of the family, also joined the mourners.
As per Reports, Following a visit to the Japanese embassy in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his condolences in a video that was shared on the nation’s official presidential Twitter account.
“I recall every meeting and task we accomplished together, particularly during my visit to Japan in 2019”. I lost a good mate, a mournful Macron stated.
“He served his country with great courage, and audacity.”
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