📹 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
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
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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@AFP's Sam Yeh photographs the Taiwanese flag flying at half-mast in tribute to former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei
Shooting of ex-Japan PM Shinzo Abe.
#AFPGraphics factfile on what we know so far about the shooting of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe who died in hospital on July 8
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