Japan's ex-PM Shinzo Abe assassinated

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The way things are going worldwide, I doubt it was just a madman.

Japan's ex-PM Abe showing ‘no vital signs’ after shooting – reports

The former leader appeared to be unresponsive at the scene, according to Kyodo News

Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been rushed to the hospital after apparently being shot while giving an address, local media reports said, noting that bystanders heard two loud bangs before Abe collapsed.

Abe fell to the ground during a speech in the city of Nara on Friday and was seen bleeding, according to NHK, which added that he was in a state of “cardiopulmonary arrest” afterward, citing local fire officials.
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A suspected shooter has reportedly been apprehended.

Japan’s longest serving prime minister, Abe was campaigning for an upcoming parliamentary election this weekend, speaking in favor of the ruling Liberal Democratic party.
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In the few videos above, he doesn't appear to move at all after the shot is fired. That seems strange to me. So the shot makes no immediate kinetic effect on his body whatsoever? Very strange.
Maybe we just need better videos, though. Don't want to be one of those who think everything is fake, like that crazy, Miles Mathis.
 
Things are really heating up now, aren't they? It looks like Abe was either much more than just a former prime minister, or it was a signal to the current Japanese government.
Abe was supposed to be in bad health in recent years, which was given as the reason why he had stepped down after such a long time in the office(by Japanese standards). So I am surprised he was actively rallying on behalf of a fellow upcoming politician.
 
Very very sad.

The important election was coming up 2 days later and it is not understatement to say that lots of people in Japan were all excited for this. New party formed up with no involvement of vested interests for the first time in 70 years (since we lost the war), people found the hope and were supporting the new movement; some people were giving out speeches and speaking up the truth - "deep state" "the financial elites" "the man behind the curtain" - and people were gathering outside, on the street. Many people were waking up in a rapid rate in the past 2 months. SNS was heating up.

They now took not only our beloved former prime minister - our hope, but also, they blocked and threatened the entire election and speech from people.

Right now the media is repeating “this is blockade of speech by terrorism” – They probably couldn’t wait any longer to bring this narrative in this country.
 
Eulenspiegel said:
Things are really heating up now, aren't they? It looks like Abe was either much more than just a former prime minister, or it was a signal to the current Japanese government.
Abe was supposed to be in bad health in recent years, which was given as the reason why he had stepped down after such a long time in the office(by Japanese standards). So I am surprised he was actively rallying on behalf of a fellow upcoming politician.
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Apparently, Shinzo Abe knew that Covid was coming. That's why he stepped down from the position before it came - not because of his health. He was probably OK negotiating and opening Japan to the global market, but he was not going to kill his people by advocating vaccination nonsense.
 
Eulenspiegel said:
Things are really heating up now, aren't they? It looks like Abe was either much more than just a former prime minister, or it was a signal to the current Japanese government.
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We don't know the motive of the killer yet. He is longest-serving PM in Japan and part of powerful political family.
Shinzo Abe ( 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history. Abe also served as Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2005 to 2006 under Junichiro Koizumi and was briefly leader of the opposition in 2012.
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Early life and education

Shinzo Abe was born on 21 September 1954 in Tokyo to a prominent political family with significant economic influence throughout pre-war, wartime and post-war Japan. His family was originally from Yamaguchi Prefecture, and Abe's registered residence (honseki chi) is Nagato, Yamaguchi.

His maternal grandfather Nobusuke Kishi was de facto "economic king" of occupied China and Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state in Northern China, in the lead-up to World War II, and during the war, had served as Vice Minister of Munitions in the cabinet of Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō. At the end of the war, Kishi was imprisoned in Sugamo Prison as a suspected "Class-A" war criminal by the US military occupation of Japan, but was released and later de-purged as part of the Occupation's "reverse course." In his book Utsukushii Kuni e (Toward a Beautiful Country), Abe wrote: "Some people used to point to my grandfather as a 'Class-A war criminal suspect,' and I felt strong repulsion. Because of that experience, I may have become emotionally attached to 'conservatism,' on the contrary". Kishi went on to help found the Liberal Democratic Party in 1955, and served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960.

His paternal grandfather Kan Abe was a Yamaguchi landowner who served in the House of Representatives during World War II, while his father Shintaro Abe served in the House of Representatives from 1958 to 1991, with stints as Chief Cabinet Secretary, Minister for International Trade and Industry, and Minister for Foreign Affairs. During World War II, Shintaro volunteered to be a kamikaze pilot but the war ended before he completed training.
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From what I read, Abe was pro-Anglo-Saxon, and with the current multipolar development, maybe "the Western World" was losing its influence over Japan? Now they got a martyr to consolidate public opinion...

Japan should consider hosting U.S. nuclear weapons, Abe says​

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday that Japan should break a long-standing taboo and hold an active debate on nuclear weapons – including a possible “nuclear-sharing” program similar to that of NATO – in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“Japan is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has its three non-nuclear principles, but it should not treat as a taboo discussions on the reality of how the world is kept safe,” Abe said during a television program.
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Japan should consider hosting U.S. nuclear weapons, Abe says

Abe noted that had Ukraine kept some of its nuclear weapons following the breakup of the Soviet Union instead of exchanging them for a security guarantee, it may not have faced an invasion.
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Some people cited the Economist interview with him, as a confirmation that he was pro-Russian in regard to the Ukrainian conflict, but he keeps the line just a sentence later.
TE: You met with Vladimir Putin some 27 times. What advice would you offer on dealing with Putin now?

AS: I don’t think there are many options left in this situation. There are lots of ways to analyse Putin’s character, but I think he is someone who believes in power and is a realist at the same time. He is not the type of person who pursues ideals, or makes sacrifices for ideas.

Before the invasion, when they had surrounded Ukraine, it might have been possible to avoid war. If Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky could have been made to promise that his country will not join NATO, or made to grant a high degree of autonomy to the two enclaves in the east. I understand this would be hard to do—perhaps an American leader could have done it. But of course Zelensky would refuse.

However, now that we are here, I think the only way forward is to stand with Ukraine and thoroughly oppose Russia’s aggression. That is the way to protect the international order that we have created since the end of World War II.
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www.economist.com

Abe Shinzo in his own words

The Economist interviews the former Japanese prime minister
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mabar said:
The way things are going worldwide, I doubt it was just a madman.
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Just before finding this thread, I read this yahoo news article:

Shinzo Abe assassination: Biden, world leaders ‘outraged’ at former Japanese prime minister’s death​

Just like the BBC announced the collapse of building 7 before it happened, someone else slipped!
Nadhim Zahawi, who was appointed as the U.K.’s Chancellor of the Exchequer two days ago following mass Cabinet resignations, shared his sympathies with Japan saying that Abe “has lost his life in pursuit” making the world a better place. It followed a now-deleted tweet where he had expressed his shock at Abe’s death — before any update had been given on the ex-leader’s condition.
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And then there's this:
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A homemade shotgun was revealed while some claimed a ghost gun was used.
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Sure fits the narrative - no?
Japan is a country with some of the world’s strictest laws on gun ownership. For a country with more than 127 million people, it rarely totals more than 10 gun deaths per year. “Ever since guns entered the country, Japan has always had strict gun laws,” Iain Overton, the executive director of Action on Armed Violence, a British advocacy group, told the BBC back in May. “They are the first nation to impose gun laws in the whole world, and I think it laid down a bedrock saying that guns really don't play a part in civilian society."
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Yeah - it stinks to high heaven!
 
JEEP said:
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It followed a now-deleted tweet where he had expressed his shock at Abe’s death — before any update had been given on the ex-leader’s condition.
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This tweet, I suppose.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1545371031833018369

The fact that he deleted it is suspicious.... Although, I imagine that in those spheres the information passes before the public? More or less the time coincides with the tweet's timing...
They give here the news almost at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, according to 9 hours before the time of the United Kingdom.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1545330160718827520
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot during a speech, died at a hospital in Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture, where he was receiving treatment at the age of 67, according to a senior LDP official.
 
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