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Jul 12, 2022, 5 tweets

Shinzo Abe -- Japan's longest-serving prime minister

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📹 People in Tokyo queue with flowers to pay their final respects to Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe at Zojoji Temple, where a private funeral is to be held

Family and friends of assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe gather at a Tokyo temple for a private funeral.

Although the funeral rites were for family members and close associates only, crowds of people came to the Zojoji temple to pay respects

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VIDEO: The hearse carrying the body of Shinzo Abe stops outside the prime minister's office in Tokyo as Japan mourns the former Japanese PM who was shot at close range in the city of Nara

Japan in mourning.

Thousands lined the streets of central Tokyo to bid farewell to assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe.

His hearse was driven past political landmarks in the capital after a private funeral

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VIDEO: 🇯🇵 The hearse carrying the body of former Japanese PM #ShinzoAbe stops outside the current prime minister's office in Tokyo as Japan mourns the late leader was gunned down while campaigning in the city of Nara

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