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Shinzo Abe, Japan's former prime minister, assassinated at a campaign stop
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- Title
- Japan ex-prime minister Abe may have been shot, taken to hospital - NHK
- Authors
- Reuters
- Published
- Jul 8 2022
- Word count
- 71 words
Wow. I feel shaken more than anything in recent memory. Definitely did not expect something like this to hit my homeland, but then, fatal attack against a national leader isn't entirely out of 'brand' for Japan, considering that it hasn't been more than a century since the May 15th incident.
I hadn't particularly liked or disliked Mr. Abe. The grievance I feel is from knowing that someone was forced to go through a sudden and presumably painful death and that there was someone who directed their animosity toward a specific person to cause this death. My mind is reeling to try to understand it all.
I edited the title here to match the updated headline on Reuters, now that Abe has been pronounced dead. And it's also no longer a "short read" since they have added more information to the article.