Japan’s former PM, Abe, shot

[citygator]

Not confirmed dead but reports from the scene were not positive.

Live updates: Shinzo Abe hospitalized after shooting in Japan, suspect Yamagami Tetsuya arrested

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been rushed to hospital after he was shot in the chest during a speech in Nara, Japan, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing an official of the Liberal Democratic Party Abe faction.

www.cnn.com

• Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday morning in Nara, Japan, the country's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno has confirmed. Two shots can be heard in video footage of the incident.
• Abe is in critical condition and emergency treatment is taking place, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said. Abe was in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest after he collapsed, according to an official from the Nara City Fire Department.
• Police have arrested a man in his 40s on suspicion of attempted murder and retrieved a gun, NHK reported.
• Abe is the longest-serving Japanese Prime Minister in history. He stepped down as Prime Minister in 2020, citing health reasons.

 

[shockedcanadian]

The investigation and questions will be asked about the source, if the shooter was radicalized etc. I doubt a foreign government would be responsible, though, if they were, it would be designed in such a way as to be untraceable anyways if they knew what they were doing.

Certainly an act like this, if setup, would be by necessity conducted by those who knew what they were doing. The stakes would be far too high and with an unknown risk of response (such as Japan deciding their passive military policy is no longer feasible in honour of this man who was driving such an approach before he stepped down).

Oh, and potentially as an aside, I know it is technically a day late, but China just commemorated the 85th anniversary of the "July 7th Incident', which was the horrible atrocities the Japanese soldiers did to China in WWII. Unthinkable horrors that China and the world shouldn't forget for it's inhumanity.

 

[Esdraelon]

Certainly an act like this, if setup, would be by necessity conducted by those who knew what they were doing.

This immediately begs the question of why the shooter would have needed to build a clumsy homemade gun. It looks like a crude type of shotgun but is short like a pistol. Oh... and he ISN'T DEAD yet. Way to go for clickbait...

 

[shockedcanadian]

This immediately begs the question of why the shooter would have needed to build a clumsy homemade gun. It looks like a crude type of shotgun but is short like a pistol. Oh... and he ISN'T DEAD yet. Way to go for clickbait...

The suspect is a former Maritime Self Defense Force member, according to Fuji TV.

 

[citygator]

This immediately begs the question of why the shooter would have needed to build a clumsy homemade gun. It looks like a crude type of shotgun but is short like a pistol. Oh... and he ISN'T DEAD yet. Way to go for clickbait...

I said that right in the oP not dead but sure looks bad.

 

[theHawk]

Faux was running reruns from earlier, so I tuned into CNN late night. Their reporter almost seemed like he could barely keep a smiling grin off his face when talking about it. The prospect of someone assassinating a former head of state seemed a gleeful prospect to him.

 

[Unkotare]

Reports out of Japan are that his vital signs are all but nil. There are rumors that it may have been a set-up with deep sources.

 

[Unkotare]

The suspect is a former Maritime Self Defense Force member, according to Fuji TV.

Navy.

 

[Unkotare]

This immediately begs the question of why the shooter would have needed to build a clumsy homemade gun. ...

Harder to trace.

 

[Unkotare]

Video from the scene shows him receiving CPR from several first responders.

 

[Unkotare]

Sources close to him have said that he is dead, but this is not confirmed yet.

 

[Unkotare]

NHK reporting his death confirmed.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

He's dead Jim

Sawed off shotgun up close and personal will blow holes in ya

 

[Calypso Jones]

Shinzo Abe's party on track for big election win after his assassination

The Liberal Democratic Party to which Abe belonged is on track to win more than half of all contested seats

justthenews.com

Unintended consequences.

 

[Mac-7]

Shinzo Abe's party on track for big election win after his assassination

The Liberal Democratic Party to which Abe belonged is on track to win more than half of all contested seats

justthenews.com

Unintended consequences.

Ane was a leader in the international change of heart toward china

Prior to Trump and Abe free world leaders thought of china as a benevolent trading partners

Now the world sees china as at least an adversary, and maybe an enemy