Body of Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Arrives at Zojoji Temple in Tokyo

The body of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived at Tokyo's Zojoji Temple, where a wake will be held on Monday night, with a funeral for family and close friends on Tuesday.

Abe was gunned down Friday while delivering a campaign speech in the western city of Nara.

The assassination has shocked Japan, where gun violence is extremely rare.

The suspect — 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami — is a former member of the country’s Self-Defense Forces.

Police say Yamagami believed Abe was connected with a religious group that Yamagami blames for his mother’s financial ruin.

South Korea’s Unification Church said Monday that Yamagami’s mother was a member, but denied taking large sums from her.

Neither the suspect nor Abe was a member of the church, but apparently Yamagami believed Abe was.

Abe had, however, supported the church’s peace-promoting efforts over the years.

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[srr]

😭💔😭🇯🇵💔Thank you so much

Ex Former prime minister SHINZO ABE for all the good things you’ve done in our country Philippines🇵🇭AND JAPAN 🇯🇵💔😭
So very sad. 😭💔A great leader..🇯🇵
RIP Our sincere condolences to his family and friends. Praying for all.we love you for ever ❤

[yehtetnaing]

When I saw the news that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had been assassinated, I was shocked. My condolences with his family and the people of Japan. Abe was a good friend of Burma and a great leader of the world. We'll remember you. Thank you very much for helping our country. R.I.P Mr.Abe 🇯🇵🇲🇲

[jamestwyford]

May we, as the international populace, extend our most sincere condolences to the family of the longest standing protector of Japanese democratic standards, 氏 Shinzo Abe.
Not only does he prevail as being one of the finest examples of a democratic leader, he also excelled in upholding each modicum of intelligence, legality, virtue and integrity amidst the virulence of international conflicts.
We shall ever commemorate your honourable existence with such loyalty and pure adoration, as you transition into the heavenly realms of spiritual magnanimity and benevolence whilst gliding betwixt golden fields and glistening sunshine 🇯🇵💔😢🕊

[jayechow]

Who would believe a known militant gets done in by another militant.

[cuctran]

Nam mô A Di Đà Phật Cau nguyện cho Huong Linh SHINZO ABE sinh năm 1954 mất ngày 8/7/2022 Hướng tho 68 tuổi được VÃNG SANH CỰC LẠC Thành kinh phân ưu cùng TANG QUYẾN

[hotpotato]

*Shinzo Abe* _(21 September 1954 - 8 July 2022)_ - A highly acclaimed Japanese leader worshipped by the naive and unconscientious new generation, but actually an arrogant far-right wing individual who denied all the atrocities, known as the 'Asian Holocaust', committed by the Japanese forces during their war campaigns before and during WWII in East Asia. He further angered all his ASEAN neighbours by persistently insisting on honouring all those Japanese war criminals enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine.

*Nobusuke Kishi* _(13 November 1896 - 7 August 1987) - A 'Class A' war criminal himself in the war of aggression against China, a Japanese right wing known for his exploitative rule of the Japanese puppet state of Manchokuo in Northeast China in the 1930s and was nicknamed the "Monster of the Shōwa era" (昭和の妖怪; Shōwa no yōkai).

Kishi was notorious of his brutality when he served as Manchukuo's Deputy Minister of Industrial Development. Kishi felt the Chinese were more akin to dogs than human beings and would only understand brute force, that Chinese were merely _'mechanical instruments of the Imperial Army, non-human automatons that should absolutely be obedient'_ to their Japanese masters.

With the US support he became the Prime Minister of Japan (1957-1960). As prime minister, Kishi's mishandling of the 1960 revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty _(the treaty that allows the United States to maintain military bases on Japanese soil), _ led to the massive 1960 Anpo protests which were the largest protests in Japan's modern history and which forced him to resign in disgrace.

On 14 July 1960, Kishi was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant as he was leaving the prime minister's residence to host a garden party celebrating Hayato Ikeda's impending ascension to the premiership.
For the rest of his life, Kishi remained devoted to the cause of revising the Japanese Constitution to get rid of *_Article 9_* and remilitarizing Japan.

On 7 August 1987, Nobusuke Kishi died after months of illness. Shinzo Abe is his grandson, who is also an extreme right wing antagonist against China.

Just like his belligerent grandfather, Abe sought to eliminate *_Article 9_* which states:
*_'Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.'_*

[andresmattos]

My condolences to the victims of Japan's brutal war crimes