Abe's impact was global, as four former Australian PMs were there to attest, and another message: that Japanese society will not accept political assassination.
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China rebuked Japan for Taiwan's flower offering, and left-leaning media in both countries played up the costs of the state funeral for Abe as "divisive."
On Twitter, we look at some world leaders and political figures' words of condolences to former late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Inside and outside the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, thousands of people said a final goodbye to the consequential and longest serving prime minister of Japan.
The ceremony includes a speech from Fumio Kishida, and the attendance of foreign leaders such as Kamala Harris, Antony Albanese and Narendra Modi.
Abe’s legacy included overseeing a dramatic shift in Japan’s whaling policy, from the decision to withdraw from the IWC to the restart of commercial whaling.
Scheduled for September 27, the state funeral is expected to surpass the attendees for Shigeru Yoshida in 1967. Invitees include Barack Obama and Kamala Harris.
This is the first time in history that the US has embraced a Japanese strategy as its own. India, Australia, and even Europe have endorsed it.
Beijing wouldn’t stop Chinese netizens celebrating the former Japanese prime minister’s death. Asahi Shimbun is doing the same with its senryu column.
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A state funeral for the former prime minister is planned for the autumn, where more dignitaries are expected to arrive in Tokyo.