According to Kyodo News, the Japanese government held the state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on the 27th. According to reports, after Abe's ashes arrived at the Budokan on the 27th, Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hiroichi, who served as the funeral vice chairman, will make a speech at 2 pm to announce the funeral.
According to Kyodo News, civic groups opposed to the state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gathered in Tokyo on the 19th to demand the cancellation of the state funeral. In view of the fact that Abe's state funeral was finalized without parliamentary deliberation, non-fiction writer Kamada Kei, one of the initiators, criticized at the rally: "The state funeral has no basis.
Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons The Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S) mourns the passing of Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo ABE. His immense contribution and efforts elevated Indo-Japan relations to the level of a Special Strategic and Global Partnership. The institutional innovations that ABE spearheaded the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the QUAD are likely to shape Asia’s geopolitical landscape for a long time to come. Shinzo AB
Shinzo Abe's assassination has shocked a country with incredibly thorough, strict gun laws. It's big because of how rare both guns and gun deaths are in Japan.
The Former Japanese Prime Minister died aged 67 after he was shot twice on Monday morning in the eastern city of Nara during an election campaign event.