The state funeral of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe took place in Tokyo, attended by an array of global dignitaries, including Vice President Kamala Harris. Thousands took to the streets to protest the funeral and Japan’s opposition parties boycotted it.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other officials attend the state funeral for slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in Tokyo. Japan's assassinated hawkish former leader, Shinzo Abe, was given a rare state funeral Tuesday full of military pomp and surrounded by throngs of mourners as well as by widespread protests, with thousands taking to the streets in opposition.
Attendants stood while a military band played the Kimigayo national anthem, then observed a moment of silence before a video was shown praising Abe's life in politics. It included his 2006 parliamentary speech vowing to build a “beautiful Japan," his visits to disaster-hit northern Japan after the March 2011 tsunami and his 2016 Super Mario impersonation in Rio de Janeiro to promote the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
During the ceremony, Harris sat in the third row next to Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, and they later joined others by placing a branch of chrysanthemums on a table near Abe's photo. “The fact that the close ties between the LDP and the Unification Church may have interfered with policymaking processes is seen by the Japanese people as a greater threat to democracy than Abe’s assassination,” Hosei University political science professor Jiro Yamaguchi wrote in a recent article.
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