With flowers, prayers, flags wrapped in black ribbons and the occasional tear, Japan on Tuesday paid its last goodbye to Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister killed last Friday at an election rally at the age of 67.
The ceremony for the Buddhist rite was held after noon (local time) at the Zojoji temple in the Japanese capital. It was an act of an intimate nature, in which only members of his family and figures close to the deceased leader were present, such as the current prime minister, Fumio Kishida, or the secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, Toshimitsu Motegi, to whom Abe, the most dominant figure in Japanese politics so far this century, it belonged to his entire career.
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