Two days after Shinzo Abe, 67, Japan’s longest-serving modern prime minister, was shot dead on Friday while making a speech in support of a local candidate in the Western Japanese city of Nara, Japan s ruling party scored a sweeping victory in Sunday s House of Councillors election.
Abe, 67, was assassinated during a campaign speech in the western Japanese city of Nara on Friday. Police arrested a suspect for the shooting identified as Tetsuya Yamagami, a 41-year-old resident of Nara City.