Mourners streamed into a temple in Tokyo on Monday to pay their respects to former premier Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated at an election rally
Current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who has the chance to cement his own power following Sunday’s election gains, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen were among the hundreds at Abe’s wake, three days after he wasA private funeral for Abe, who resigned in 2020 and was Japan’s longest-serving premier, is scheduled for Tuesday.
The Unification Church, a controversial group known for its mass weddings and devoted following, said on Monday the suspect’s mother was one of its members. In elections held on Sunday, the Liberal Democratic Party and its ruling coalition partner extended their majority in the upper house of parliament. With a majority already in place in the lower house, what would have been a celebratory mood at LDP headquarters in usual circumstances turned sombre.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Kishida during a brief stopover on Monday to offer messages of support on behalf of President Joe Biden. Dressed in black, some of those gathered mopped their brows as they queued beneath the steps leading to the temple in the sultry evening air. With no elections set for another three years, Kishida, an Abe protégé, now has an unusually long breathing space to attempt to implement his own agenda. That includes expanding defence spending and revising Japan’s pacifist constitution – a long-held dream of Abe’s.
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