The police said the man charged with killing Shinzo Abe had a “grudge” against a group he associated with the ex-prime minister. Mr. Abe’s body arrived Saturday at his home in Tokyo.
He made it his political mission to vanquish Japan’s wartime ghosts but fell short of his ultimate goal of restoring his country as a normalised military power.
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