Japanese Mourn Ex PM Shinzo Abe Day After His Assassination
NDTV
Japan's longest serving modern leader Shinzo Abe was shot dead while making a campaign speech yesterday by a 41-year-old man.
A steady stream of mourners on Saturday visited the scene of the bloody assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's in the western city of Nara, an unusual act of political violence that has shocked the nation.
Japan's longest serving modern leader was shot dead while making a campaign speech on Friday morning by a 41-year-old man, in an attack decried by the political establishment as an attack on democracy itself.
"I'm just shocked that this kind of thing happened in Nara," said Natsumi Niwa, a 50-year-old housewife, said after offering flowers with her 10-year-old son near the scene of the killing at a downtown train station.
Abe, a conservative and architect of the "Abenomics" policies aimed at reflating the Japanese economy, inspired the name of her son, Masakuni, with his rallying cry of Japan as a "beautiful nation", Niwa said. "Kuni" means nation in Japanese.
