Lagatar24 Desk
Tokyo, July 10: Just two days after Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister, was shot and killed while campaigning in Japan, voters cast their ballots in an upper house election on Sunday.
The murder has cast a shadow over the election, which is anticipated to extend the majority held by Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party. The horrific murder, according to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other leaders, won’t stop democracy.
The former prime minister’s body arrived at Abe’s family home in Tokyo on Saturday afternoon from a hospital in western Japan, and he also took some time to offer condolences there.
The killing on Friday morning shocked the country and the entire world, evoking sorrow even from countries like China and South Korea that the hawkish Abe occasionally had tense relations with.
Tetsuya Yamagami (41) the man accused of killing him, is currently in detention and has admitted to detectives that he chose Abe as his victim because he thought the politician had ties to an unspecified organisation.
According to local media, the organisation is considered religious, and Yamagami’s family has experienced financial difficulties as a result of his mother’s contributions to the organisation.
