Japan's push to restart nuclear reactors, shut down after the Fukushima disaster a decade ago, could get a tailwind as the governing coalition looks set for gains in a national election on Sunday. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's coalition is on track to expand its majority in the upper house of…
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's push to restart nuclear reactors, shut down after the Fukushima disaster a decade ago, could get a tailwind as the governing coalition looks set for gains in a national election on Sunday.
The former Japanese prime minister was shot at an election rally in an attack that has shocked a country with little gun crime and halted campaigning ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary polls.
Politicians, economic leaders and voters in Japan express shock and anger over the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that has taken place while he was delivering a stump speech for the weekend s upper house election.
Upper House election campaigns came to a halt around Japan on July 8 as politicians from all sides prayed for the recovery of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot in Nara.