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Pillar of Humanitarianism Murdered by Gunshot
The shooter, a man, was identified as Tetsuya Yamagami. The former member of Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force admitted to the police that he did not like Abe and intended to kill him.
Shinzo Abe
Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has passed away after undergoing treatment. He was gunned down while campaigning for a parliamentary election in the Nara area on Friday (8/7/2022).
Abe was the longest-serving prime minister in Japan. The 67-year-old politician died at a hospital in Kashihara, Nara region, where he received medical treatment. Abe was in Nara to campaign for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), ahead of the upper house of parliament elections on Sunday (10/7).
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