The fallout from Abe Shinzo’s murder could unseat his successor
Japan’s prime minister has seen his popularity plummet in the past two months
ABE AKIE emerged from a black car on September 27th clad in a black kimono, carrying her husband’s ashes in a box. She paused before Kishida Fumio, Japan’s prime minister, and the two bowed deeply to each other, before leading a procession past a military honour guard and into Tokyo’s Budokan arena. Inside, Japanese elites and foreign dignitaries had gathered to pay their final respects to Abe Shinzo, the former prime minister who was assassinated on July 8th.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Moments of silence”
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