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Japan votes for key election in shadow of Abe assassination

Japanese went to the polls Sunday in the shadow of the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, gunned down while making a campaign speech for the governing Liberal Democratic Party

The Independent UK

Abe's killing haunts Japan with questions on handmade guns

The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sent shudders through low-crime, orderly Japan

The Independent UK

Top US diplomat to pay Abe condolence visit to Japan

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will pay a brief condolence visit to Japan next week following the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

The Independent UK

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Shinzo Abe’s death highlights fringe Japan political party that criticized him

The assassination of Shinzo Abe has drawn attention to a fringe political party that had criticized him ahead of Sunday’s upper house election for alleged connections to religious groups.

Tribune News Service

Security in Thailand tightened after Abe's killing

Government officials are tightening their security following the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe by a disgruntled man in the Nara prefecture on Friday.

Bangkok Post

Shinzo Abe's death isn't Japan's first political assassination

The calm and ordered veneer that has become a hallmark of Japanese society was shockingly ripped away with Shinzo Abe's killing. Yet the country is also well known for sporadic but significant examples of politically motivated violence.

ABC News

Shinzo Abe's death has created a huge gulf in Japan ahead of today's parliamentary elections

There is a general feeling of safety in Japan where gun violence is incredibly rare. But the assassination of Shinzo Abe in a brazen attack may change that.

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What we know so far about former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination

Tetsuya Yamagami, the unemployed 41-year-old who confessed to assassinating Shinzo Abe, reportedly planned the attack for months. He told police his motivations were not political.

WEKU

Japan's ruling coalition makes strong election showing after Abe killing

Japan's conservative coalition government increased its majority in the upper house of parliament in an election on Sunday, two days after the assassination of dominant politician and power broker Shinzo Abe.

Reuters

Shinzo Abe assassination: Japanese head to polls in grief and disbelief

Prime minister Fumio Kishida warns violence will not be tolerated in defiant speech after the murder of former leader

The Guardian - UK

French rugby team overturns Japan at last minute to clock up 10th straight win

Six Nations champions France scored a late try to edge Japan 20-15 in an second rugby Test on Saturday. It was an emotional match, held at Tokyo's National Stadium the day after the country was shocked by the assassination of Shinzo Abe. A minute's silence was held for the former…

Radio France Internationale

‘Like time had stopped’: Japan grapples with Shinzo Abe’s loss

The former prime minister’s body returns to capital Tokyo as a shocked nation comes to terms with his assassination.

Al Jazeera

Anthony Albanese pays tribute to 'true friend' of Australia Shinzo Abe, while warning such attacks could happen again

Anthony Albanese describes the assassination of the former Japanese prime minister as an act of terrorism, and warns a similar attack on political leaders could occur again.

ABC News

Saudi Leadership Condoles Japanese PM on Abe’s Death

The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, has sent a cable of condolences to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida following the assassination of ex-PM Shinzo Abe, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday. The King expressed his deepest condolences to the Prime Minister, the…

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Japan mourns late leader Shinzo Abe a day after shock assassination

A steady stream of mourners visited the scene of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe's assassination in the western city of Nara on Saturday as a motorcade carrying the late leader's body arrived in the capital, Tokyo.

Los Angeles Times

Biden and former US presidents shocked by Shinzo Abe’s assassination

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and other U.S. leaders mourned the death of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated Friday while delivering a campaign speech ahead of his country’s parliamentary elections.

Bangkok Post

Japan mourns as Abe's body returns to Tokyo

TOKYO: A hearse carrying the body of assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Tokyo on Saturday after he was shot at close range on the campaign trail.

Reuters

Biden tells Japan's PM of outrage at Abe's assassination

U.S. President Joe Biden told Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a call on Friday of his outrage at the assassination of former leader Shinzo Abe, who was gunned down while campaigning for a parliamentary election.

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WEKU

Shinzo Abe, killed at 67, leaves a storied legacy as Japan's longest-serving premier

The influential prime minister worked to revive the economy with his trademark "Abenomics" and rebuild Japan's role on the global stage. His assassination stunned a nation where gun violence is rare.

Los Angeles Times

What we know about the crude, homemade gun used in Shinzo Abe’s assassination

Within hours of a 41-year-old suspect’s arrest in the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with an improvised gun, police raided Tetsuya Yamagami’s home Friday and found a small arsenal of homemade weapons — so-called zip or pipe guns.

WEKU

Abe's assassination shocks Japan, where gun control is strict and shootings are rare

Japan, with famously strict laws, has among the world's lowest rates of gun ownership and gun violence. In 2018 there were just nine firearm deaths reported in Japan, compared with 39,740 in the U.S.

ABC News

Shinzo Abe's assassination has deeply shocked the city of Nara. Residents say they 'can't forgive such an act'

In the city where Shinzo Abe was assassinated, residents are paying tribute at the site where the former prime minister delivered his last speech. As some lay flowers or pray, others openly cry at the loss of "someone very important to Japan".

The Independent UK

NPR forced to delete tweet calling Shinzo Abe a ‘divisive arch-conservative’ after his assassination

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Facebook, Twitter Remove Shinzo Abe Assassination Videos

Twitter, Facebook parent Meta and other social media companies scrambled Friday to police videos on their platforms of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that break rules on harmful content. Multiple videos of the attack by a gunman who fired a homemade, double-barreled weapon twice at Abe…

The Conversation

Shinzo Abe's killing: the history of political violence in Japan

Our reaction upon hearing the news of the shooting of former prime minister Shinzo Abe was one of shock and incredulity in equal measure. What followed was a frenzy of trying to piece news reports and gossip together to make sense of events, until his eventual death was announced a…

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