The former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe died at the age of 67 after a shooting in the Japanese city of Nara on Friday, July 8, 2022. In this article, we will analyze the case in detail.
Shinzo Abe was shot twice during a speech on Friday morning in Nara. The shooter, 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami, was arrested using a homemade weapon.
The Japan Fire Department confirmed that Abe had a gunshot wound on the right side of his neck and subcutaneous bleeding on the left side of his chest.
According to emergency services, the former leader was in cardiac arrest when he was transported to the hospital.
As this is recent news, any updates will be made within this article. We do not like to create multiple news items full of repetition and drivel as media channels do.
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Who was Shinzo Abe?
Shinzo Abe was prime minister of Japan in 2006 for one year and again from 2012 to 2020. On August 28, 2020, Abe announced his resignation as prime minister, citing a resurgence of his ulcerative colitis.
Shinzou Abe [安倍 晋三] was born in Tokyo on September 21, 1954, and served four terms as the country’s prime minister. He was a conservative, populist, and nationalist politician from Nippon Kaigi.
Abe’s policies were called “abenomikusu,” and he bet on the free market, quantitative easing, production stimulus, and fiscal balance, while also being responsible for a structural adjustment while expanding Japanese social welfare.
In recent decades, Japan has managed to reduce the high number of suicides by half. The workload of the Japanese has also decreased significantly compared to previous decades, even becoming lower than that of Brazil. Shinzo Abe’s policies may have contributed to these results.
About the Suspect Tetsuya Yamagami
Tetsuya Yamagami was a former member of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Japan’s equivalent of the navy. According to sources from the Japanese Ministry of Defense, he worked in the naval branch of the Self-Defense Forces for three years, until 2005.
The weapon used in the crime is a homemade weapon, as the country has strict laws regarding firearms, where deaths from firearms are rare occurrences.
What did the world say about Shinzo Abe’s Death?
The former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd described the act as an “attack on defenders of democracy.”
The U.S. ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, said that Abe was an “excellent leader of Japan and an unwavering ally of the U.S.,” adding that the U.S. was “praying” for his well-being.
The Brazilian president stated that he received the news of the assassination of the former Japanese prime minister “with extreme indignation and sorrow.” Bolsonaro declared three days of mourning for the death of Shinzo Abe.
Firearms in Japan
Firearms are rare in Japan, and the number of deaths from them usually does not exceed even 10 people.
In Brazil, deaths from firearms nearly exceed 50,000 per year, while in the United States, the number is around 30,000.
The majority of Japanese have never seen a gun in their lives, and not all police officers can possess a firearm.
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