Former japanese prime minister abe chenzo was shot during a campaign speech in July. His wife, abe akie, carried her husband's ashes into the state funeral for him yesterday. The scene shows just how far the killing of mister abe has rippled through japans political scene.
Women are burning their hijabs on bonfires and hacking off their hair—but the
unrest has come to be about far more than the heavy hands of the morality police. The murder of Abe Shinzo, a former Japanese prime minister,
exposed troubling government links to a cult-like sect; the fallout could unseat his successor. And using flying robots as
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