His ultra-nationalism riled the Koreas and China, and his push to create what he saw as a more normal defense posture angered many Japanese. That last goal was a big reason he was such a divisive figure. He spoke of his failure to resolve the issue of Japanese abducted years ago by North Korea, a territorial dispute with Russia and a revision of Japan’s war-renouncing constitution. He told reporters at the time that it was “gut wrenching” to leave many of his goals unfinished. Abe has had ulcerative colitis since he was a teenager and has said the condition was controlled with treatment. Nara, once the capital of Japan, is just to the east of Osaka on the country’s main Honshu island.Ībe cited a chronic health problem when he resigned as prime minister. The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper printed extra editions, which were quickly grabbed by people on the street to read about the shooting. “A barbaric act like this is absolutely unforgivable, no matter what the reasons are, and we condemn it strongly,” Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said. Elections for Japan’s upper house, the less powerful chamber of its parliament, are Sunday. The popular former leader is still influential in the governing Liberal Democratic Party and heads its largest faction, Seiwakai. Other footage from the scene showed campaign officials surrounding Abe. NHK reported that the suspect served in the Maritime Self-Defense Force for three years in the 2000s. Nara prefectural police confirmed the arrest of a suspect for alleged attempted murder and identified him as Tetsuya Yamagami, 41. A double-barreled device which appeared to be a handmade gun, can be seen on the ground. In the next moment, security guards leap on top of a man in gray shirt, who lies face down on the pavement. He is holding his chest, his shirt smeared with blood. Footage then shows Abe collapsed on the street, with several security guards running toward him. He is standing, dressed in a navy blue suit, raising his fist, when a gunshot is heard. NHK public broadcaster aired dramatic footage of Abe giving a speech outside of a main train station in Nara. Abe, who is 67 and was Japan’s longest-serving leader before stepping down in 2020, was in cardio and pulmonary arrest as he was being airlifted to the hospital, local fire department official Makoto Morimoto said.
He said Abe was receiving the utmost medical treatment. “I’m praying for former prime minister Abe’s survival from the bottom of my heart,” Kishida said at the prime minister’s office after he arrived on a defense helicopter from Yamagata. Kishida and his Cabinet ministers hastily returned to Tokyo from other campaign events around the country after the shooting. He called the attack “dastardly and barbaric” and added that the crime occurring during the election campaign, which is the foundation of democracy, was absolutely unforgivable. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Abe was in “severe condition” and he hoped Abe will survive.
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