Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo collapsed on the street in the western city of Nara while making a speech for a Liberal Democratic Party candidate’s election campaign at around 11: 30 a.m. An NHK reporter who was at the scene says he may have been shot.
The fire department says he is showing no vital signs.
Police say a man has been taken into custody.
The site is near Yamatosaidaiji Station in Nara City.
The NHK reporter says Abe was bleeding. The reporter heard what sounded like a gun going off.
Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe shot at; report says unconscious, appears to be in cardio respiratory arrest
impossible. There are no guns in Japan, therefore there is no violence in Japan. Japan also doesn’t have any radical political activity. There is no political violence in Japan.
This is seriously fake news, probably started by the Russians.
IF you can shoot a former PM in Japan, anyone can be shot…
Is this reluctance to say that he was shot a cultural thing? Like they don’t want to say it, it’s crime related, so they can put it off and maybe bury it, or really ignore it. More cultural than nefarious. I started watching that HBO show about a US born reporter in japan and culturally how they deal with severe crime is nuanced… at least in the show.
“The term heart failure means the heart cannot sufficiently pump blood and supply necessary oxygen to the rest of the body. In Japan, officials sometimes use the term to describe situations where victims are no longer alive but before a formal declaration of death has been made.“
Not to be glib, but does this have any serious international implications or repercussions? Asking for myself. Been out of the loop on Japan for about a decade now.
