Mourners Pay Respects To Shinzo Abe Ahead Of Private Funeral

Mourners paid their respects to Shinzo Abe at Zojoji Temple on Tuesday ahead of a private funeral for the assassinated former Japanese prime minister. Abe was shot last week during a campaign event in the western Japanese city of Nara and was pronounced dead after being airlifted to a hospital.

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[lifechore]

From Liberia🇱🇷, I remember his program called Abe Initiative. I didn't win the scholarship but it was the only Japanese Prime Minister scholarship program I've ever heard about. I really love Japan. I want to come over to study and work. Anyone can help please. Goodbye, Prime Minister Abe. There can be no better time to remember you.

[jaccowoerdman]

My condoleances to the family of Mr. Abe and the whole Japanese people. Mr. Abe will be deeply missed.

[vanlifefamily]

Rest in Peace Great Leader Shinzo Abe, I am deeply saddened by your passing My sincere condolences to your family and the poeple of Japan

[Hey_its_Koda]

Japanese are so respectful. How they honor people.

[賴勝龍-zp]

What the people want is always in Abe's heart

[mrs.alucard]

My Viking ancestors had a special prayer specifically for funerals. Because I couldn't be there I'll say it now:

Lo there do I see my father,
lo there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers.
Lo there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning,
Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them.
In the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever.

[azurecliff]

Mr. Abe was deeply admired and loved by so many Japanese people. He was prepared to do anything for peace in Asia. Think again well about which Asian country is now instigating conflicts and wars.

[misterhoneybunny]

Shinzo Abe's photographs now looks like Gabi Petito's photograph.
Gabi Petito was murdered in August 2021. She is dead.

[saphiquefemme]

🕊Respects to PM Abe's family, friends, colleagues, and nation of Japan 🇯🇵

[katherynlauderis]

Only of God this is all.. Pray this for all countries and then live so we can have a good life.

He is good the one who shot, but he harmed. So don't harm please. And tell people how good God is for letting us have a beautiful soul and spirit of a man who loved his country, God and fellow countrymen.

And so I leave he said in the hand of God. So sweet I say. That's all.

[rika]

I am commenting using translation software.

Thank you for your heartfelt condolences to former Prime Minister Abe.
Those sentiments are a great comfort to many Japanese.

Unfortunately, the hostile political parties and media in Japan are making a terrible fuss about the state funeral. I have learned of former Prime Minister Abe's legitimate accomplishments from the foreign media and comments. I am heartened and empowered by your impartial opinions. I would like to thank you again.

Let me report here on former Prime Minister Abe's situation in Japan. In my own way, I would like to pay tribute to former Prime Minister Abe.


(1) The "Referendum Act on Constitutional Reform" has been passed. This brings us one step closer to constitutional reform.
The Diet has passed the "Referendum Act on Constitutional Reform. However, the media, led by Asahi, was furious. And further
(2) With the revision of the Broadcasting Law, left-wing TV stations began to slam Abe en masse.
(3) The enactment of the Basic Act on Ocean Policy was aimed at preventing China's maritime expansion. As a result, bashing of Prime Minister Abe by China became more and more intense.
As a result, bashing of Prime Minister Abe by China became more intense.

(4) Strengthen the Japan-U.S. alliance, which collapsed under the three-year DPJ administration.
Furthermore, (5) The Defense Agency was elevated to the Ministry of Defense. (6) Reform of the Japan Education Association by amending the Fundamental Law of Education.
(6) Reform of the Japan Education Association by amending the Fundamental Law of Education. Zainichi Koreans control more than half of the Japan Education Association, and teachers tried to correct the big lie that was created to teach young children about discrimination against Koreans.

(7) Eliminate the gray zone interest rate system.

(7) The elimination of the gray-zone interest rate system has eliminated unjust enrichment by consumer finance companies.
This has angered the underworld's unscrupulous companies. And (8) the regulation of pachinko payouts.
This stopped the flow of money, some of which was going to North Korea.

(9) Revision of the National Public Service Law, which even made enemies of civil servants.
The revision of the National Public Service Law also made enemies of civil servants.
Local governments had been spending over 800 million yen in subsidies to Korean schools.
The Abe Administration asked the local government to "confirm the appropriateness of the expenditure, " but the local government responded that it had nothing to do with the international situation.


The local government was not satisfied with this response, and decided to allow the zainichi Korean school graduates to form an "anti-Japanese network" and "impersonate Japanese nationals" in order to indirectly invade Japan from within.
They are indirectly invading Japan from within and eroding Japanese history, culture, and property.


Other: (10) Strengthen ballistic missile defense systems. (11)Do not accept the statement that comfort women were forcibly taken to Japan.
(11) Deny that comfort women were forcibly taken. The First Abe Administration created many of these bills in less than a year. The First Abe Administration
However, the mass media only focuses on the Mori Kakei issue. Mass media continued to attack Mr. Abe on the Mori Kakei issue even after his death.

[donarrivas]

Without traditional burial ceremony, japan has rushed late ex-PM to his final destination of cremation to end the sorrowful page of violence. He was the 5th JP PM died in assassination since the 19th century. Surprisingly, japanese royal family was kind of silence on his assassination. So be other royal families around the world. Just another death of a common people?

[Arahansannihilation]

If my last name were Lincoln I would name my son after him. He'll be A-be Lincoln.

[elijahkim]

What if he carved some Korean into him and not be lazy.

[mogu]

🙏←This is the way playing for the dead person or Buddha in Japan, not for living person. Sometimes European people greet me with this way → 🙏... It's so strange in Japan. We only bow each other.
I think this is Thailand's greeting "wai".🙏 Please remember, Japan is not Thailand!!　we don't do "wai"

[misterhoneybunny]

Shinzo Abe is not famous to people outside of Japan.
Shinzo Abe is not popular to people outside of Japan.

[PatrioticKoreanAmerican]

My condolences to the prime minister. But I have no sympathy for him or his political affiliations. He and his Nippon Kaigi cronies have controlled Japan for a long time by distorting Japan’s role in WWII and denying war crimes against Asians (predominantly Koreans and Chinese), Europeans, and Americans in Japan’s education. Japan may be one of the safest nations in the world. Still, as long as his cronies remain in control, minorities in Japan, countries neighboring Japan, and Asian Americans will never be safe from people like him and his political affiliations.

[jayechow]

His hate karma is too big to be done in by its own people. Pacifism will win over militarism so is peace will win over war.