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From a distant American viewpoint, the Japanese election on Sunday was much ado about nothing. The country’s leader remained in place, the dominant party remained in control, and there will be no shifts in Japan’s policies. The electorate chose continuation of the status quo rather than risk upsetting a positive economic growth trend or putting into place a new untested leader while the North Korean threat grows increasingly ominous.
TAIWAN’S BEST FRIEND: Vice President William Lai attended the private funeral, drawing China’s ire, which said his visit was a ‘political trick that will not succeed’AFP, TOKYO
Mourners yesterday lined the streets of central Tokyo to bid farewell to assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, as his hearse was driven past political landmarks after a private funeral.
The nation’s longest-serving prime minister was gunned down on Friday while campaigning, in a crime that rattled Japan and prompted an outpouring of international condemnation and grief.
His funeral was held at Tokyo’s Zojoji temple, with relatives, foreign dignitaries and close acquaintances in attendance, including Vice President William Lai (賴清德).
Elsewhere in the temple compound, thousands of well-wishers lined up in the humid heat to pay their respects before a photograph of