Shinzo Abe’s party swept to victory in Japan after an upper house election that took on heightened significance following his assassination.
Abe, 67, was shot on Friday in the city of Nara while delivering a speech in support of candidates from his Liberal Democratic Party 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.Voters receive their ballots during Japan's upper house elections at a polling station in Tokyo on July 10.
Hide Caption 9 of 30 Photos: Shock and grief as world reacts to Abe shootingA woman cries at the site where Abe was shot in Nara, Japan, on July 8.Hide Caption 10 of 30 Photos: Shock and grief as world reacts to Abe shootingAbe's body was brought to his home in Tokyo on July 9.Hide Caption 11 of 30 Photos: Shock and grief as world reacts to Abe shootingUS President Joe Biden signs a condolence book at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Washington, DC, on July 8.
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