23 minutes agoJapan in mourning: Shinzo Abe is forwarded to last residence
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)With prayer, flowers and flags at half-strike, Japan on Tuesday bid farewell to Shinzo Abe, a top figure who dominated politics as the country's longest-lived prime minister, before he was killed at a campaign rally last week, which shocked the world. Amid a large police presence, many entered [...]
With prayer, flowers and flags at half-strike, Japan on Tuesday bid farewell to Shinzo Abe, a top figure who dominated politics as the country's longest-lived prime minister, before he was killed at a campaign rally last week, which shocked the world.
Amid a large police presence, many entered Tokyo's central temple Play them for private funeral service. Others lined up on nearby sidewalks.
A car transported Abe's body through the capital and into the funeral hall.
The car passed near Abe's Liberal Democratic Party headquarters (LDP) before leaving for the prime minister's residence, where Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other lawmakers waited for the convoy.
After that he passed the parliament building, where Abe first entered as lawmakers in 1993 before arriving at the Kirigaya funeral Hall.
Abe was Japan's longest-lived post-war prime minister and one of its most influential politicians.
And his death has caused shock in a country where cases of gun violence are extremely rare.
