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Leaders from many nations expressed shock and dismay at Abe's assassination, [7] which was the first of a former Japanese prime minister since Saitō Makoto and Takahashi Korekiyo during the 26 February incident in 1936, as well as the first of a major political figure in Japan since Inejiro Asanuma's assassination in 1960. [8]
Shinzo Abe, 67, was shot from behind minutes after he started an election campaign speech Friday in Nara in western Japan and was pronounced dead later at hospital, NHK television reported.
Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in heart failure after apparently being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, NHK public television said Friday. NHK says Abe was ...
Shinzo Abe, 67, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, died Friday after he was shot while delivering a speech at a campaign event in the city of Nara.
Tetsuya Yamagami (Japanese: 山上 徹也, Hepburn: Yamagami Tetsuya, born 10 September 1980) is a Japanese man who has admitted to assassinating Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, on 8 July 2022. [5] A resident of Nara, he was arrested at the scene of the assassination. He was 41 years old, had no prior criminal history, and was ...
Shinzo Abe [a] (21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as the prime minister of Japan and president of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history, serving for almost nine years in total.
UPDATE, 1.55 AM PT, July 8: Japanese broadcaster NHK is reporting former prime minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot while giving a speech. He had been in critical condition for several ...
The state funeral of Shinzo Abe, former prime minister of Japan and serving member of the House of Representatives was assassinated on 8 July 2022, was held on 27 September 2022. The funeral, which took place at the Nippon Budokan venue in Chiyoda, Tokyo , was expected to be attended by roughly 4,300 people, including around 700 international ...