
Shinzo Abe's party sweeps to election victory in Japan days after his assassination: NHK
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Japan's ruling coalition swept to victory on Sunday in an upper house election that took on heightened significance following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Abe, 67, was shot on Friday in the city of Nara while delivering a speech in support of candidates from his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in a killing that has stunned a nation with one of the world's lowest rates of gun crime.
The country's leaders had urged the public to turn out and vote on Sunday, denouncing the killing as an attack on democracy.

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