TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Huge crowds lined the streets of Tokyo to pay their final respects to ex-Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated final week.
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Family and mates of Japan’s former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, have attended his funeral at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo whereas members of the general public paid their respects outdoors, 4 days after he was shot useless whereas making a marketing campaign speech, The Guardian reported.
Mourners in black fits and attire gathered at Zojoji temple for the personal funeral service, whereas cops monitored onlookers, some holding bunches of flowers, who had braved the early afternoon warmth.
Hundreds of individuals had filed into the temple the earlier night to pay their respects to Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister – a conservative who impressed unwavering loyalty amongst his supporters and loathing amongst his critics.
The ceremony was closed to the media and restricted to household and shut mates, together with his widow, Akie, as chief mourner.
After the service, a hearse carrying Abe’s physique was resulting from make its method by central Tokyo, together with the political nerve middle of Nagatacho, the Diet constructing he first entered in 1993 and the workplace the place he spent a turbulent 12 months as prime minister from 2006 after which virtually eight years after his political comeback in 2012.
Satoshi Ninoyu, the chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, stated there can be a full assessment of the safety preparations on the day of Abe’s assassination. “We take this incident extremely seriously,” he was quoted by the Nikkei newspaper as saying.
Other mourners queued in entrance of the headquarters of the ruling Liberal Democratic get together (LDP), which Abe led for nearly a decade, to depart choices at a makeshift shrine whereas get together staff handed out cups of chilly tea.
Public memorials, presumably involving international political leaders, are anticipated to be held at a later date, however no particulars have been introduced.