Shocked Japanese paid homage to Abe Shinzo at the site near Yamato-Saidaiji in Nara, western Japan, where the former prime minister was assassinated on Friday, July 8, 2022, morning.
Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters
Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters
Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters
Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters
Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters
IMAGE: United States President Joe Biden visited the Japanese ambassador's residence in Washington, DC on Friday to sign the condolence book and pay tribute to a leader who long championed the Japan-America relationship. Photograph: Jeff Mason/Reuters
IMAGE: A car believed to be carrying Abe's body leaves the Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara, July 9, 2022, before its journey to Tokyo. Photograph: Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images
IMAGE: An artist applies finishing touches to a painting of the late Abe Shinzo as a tribute to one of India's trusted friends outside an art school in Mumbai. Photograph: Niharika Kulkarni/Reuters
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