Hundreds of people, some in formal dark suits, filled sidewalks outside Zojoji temple in downtown Tokyo to bid farewell to Shinzo Abe.
on Tuesday as his funeral was held at a temple days after his assassination shocked the nation.
Mourners took photos and some called out "Abe san!" as a motorcade with the hearse carrying his body accompanied by his widow, Akie Abe, slowly drove by the packed crowd. Abe’s long-time ally and mentor, Finance Minister Taro Aso, described him as "the most talented politician in postwar Japan who raised Japan’s international profile."
On Sunday, two days after Abe’s killing, his Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner won a landslide victory in elections for the upper house, the less powerful of parliament’s two chambers. Police said Yamagami cited a rumored link between Abe and an organization the suspect hated as the motive for the killing. Media reports said the organization was the Unification Church and that Yamagami disliked it because donations by his mother to the religious group had bankrupted his family.
Abe, the son of an earlier prime minister, became Japan’s youngest premier in 2006 at age 52. He left after a year in office due to health reasons but returned to power in 2012.
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