
Crowds gather in Tokyo to say final farewell to late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
CNN
Family and close friends attended the funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Tuesday, with crowds gathering on the streets of the capital to pay their last respects, four days after the shock of his assassination reverberated across the world.
The private funeral was hosted at the centuries-old Zojoji Temple by Abe's widow, Akie Abe. Well-wishers queued outside, bringing flowers, notes and green tea -- symbols of help in the afterlife -- to pay their respects to Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister.

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