Japan's ex-leader Shinzo Abe assassinated while giving speech

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-asia-62088876

Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has been assassinated while giving a campaign speech in southern Japan
Abe, 67, immediately collapsed and was seen bleeding before he was taken to hospital
The suspected attacker - reported to be a male in his 40s - was tackled at the scene and arrested
Abe - in office in 2006-07 and 2012-20 - remains the country's longest-serving PM and best-known figure internationally.
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RIP to one of the great economic leaders of our time.
 
amadeus said:
Insane! Absolutely bonkers. They are going to hang the guy that did it, and they should.
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Can he not say he was trying to protect the emperor and get away with it?
 
BBC needs to take a geography lesson: Nara is not in southern Japan, it’s just east of me about 30 minutes on the express. Sort of like if I said Oxford was in the north of England.

Also there is an election here for the House of Councillors, the Diet’s upper body, this Sunday which was why the former PM was out campaigning for LDP candidates.

I’ve been to that exact spot where he was, Yamato-Saidaiji, just a stone’s throw away from downtown Nara.
 
amadeus said:
BBC needs to take a geography lesson: Nara is not in southern Japan, it’s just east of me about 30 minutes on the express. Sort of like if I said Oxford was in the north of England.

Also there is an election here for the House of Councillors, the Diet’s upper body, this Sunday which was why the former PM was out campaigning for LDP candidates.

I’ve been to that exact spot where he was, Yamato-Saidaiji, just a stone’s throw away from downtown Nara.
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Looks like "south-of-Tokyo"-bias to me – i.e. anything in Japan not Tokyo can somehow only be related to Tokyo in foreign media.
 
Another misfit probably, by-product of super-developed societies. We saw it at Copenhagen few days ago and in USA every week.
 
REDY said:
Do we know something about the motive?
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It seems a disgruntled 41 year old former SDF employee 2002-2005, now unemployed (navy service on the escort ship "Matsuyuki" recorded, nothing entirely confirmed yet). Several home-built handguns found at his house by the police. Allegedly he has in a first interview by the police indicated he was "unhappy" with Abe, and confirmed that his intention was to kill him.

There is some weirdness surrounding what exactly this individual (who now seems to be named as well) was actually having against Abe – it is stated to not have been anything personal, but that this individual associated Abe with some group against which this individual felt great animosity. What group and whether he correctly linked Abe to it seems entirely unclear so far.
 
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This is shocking, even to an American. Abe had his blind spots, but overall was a good PM.

Sounds like there are some Japanese who get into conspiracy theories. What a shame.

Btw, understandable that the Chinese and Korean citizens would be less sympathetic.
 
Remorseless1 said:
This is shocking, even to an American. Abe had his blind spots, but overall was a good PM.

Sounds like there are some Japanese who get into conspiracy theories. What a shame.

Btw, understandable that the Chinese and Korean citizens would be less sympathetic.
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No matter what their political stances are in Korean News it us really hard to find a comment that is sympathetic to Abe. About 80% are comments like.
"Good he is dead" and " the shooter is a patriot!" Or " I am going to order a beer in celebration "Ect.
 
Lexicus said:
I really strongly agree with the Koreans. Denying Japanese war crimes is as bad as denying the Holocaust, pretty much.
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So, where and when did Abe deny them again? The geometry of the situation just isn't quite that obvious to me.
 
Lexicus said:
I really strongly agree with the Koreans. Denying Japanese war crimes is as bad as denying the Holocaust, pretty much.
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This is the status quo. But where he made a difference it was demonstrating the economic benefit of above-the-norms fiscal spending.

His example directly benefited over a hundred million, more with international ripple effects, and billions more in changing beliefs in what can be done in a stagnant, huge debt economy.
 
Hygro said:
This is the status quo. But where he made a difference it was demonstrating the economic benefit of above-the-norms fiscal spending.

His example directly benefited over a hundred million, more with international ripple effects, and billions more in changing beliefs in what can be done in a stagnant, huge debt economy.
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It strikes me that this remains to be seen.
 
Lexicus said:
It strikes me that this remains to be seen.
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$4 trillion for Covid vs $750 billion for the Great Recession. We're in a rare moment of wage gains and in the recent era peoples' complaints of the economy are mostly a) inflation and b) their job sucks so hahah they quit and got a higher paying one.
 
Hygro said:
$4 trillion for Covid vs $750 billion for the Great Recession. We're in a rare moment of wage gains and in the recent era peoples' complaints of the economy are mostly a) inflation and b) their job sucks so hahah they quit and got a higher paying one.
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How much of this can be attributed to Abe in reality?
 
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