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The funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe, who was shot and killed during an election campaign, will be held today (12th) as a family funeral home.
The suspect is also said to have opened fire on a religious group building to which his mother had donated large sums of money.
Correspondent Kim Min-jung.
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The funeral of former Prime Minister Abe is scheduled to be held this afternoon as a family funeral home.
The joint ceremony between the government and the LDP is held after the funeral of the family.
Condolences from high-ranking officials from various countries followed. US Secretary of State Blincoln and Taiwan Vice President Lai Chingde visited Japan yesterday to express their condolences on the death of former Prime Minister Abe.
Taiwan is the highest level of visit to Japan since Japan cut diplomatic ties with China in 1972.
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The investigation into the gunman of former Prime Minister Abe is also in full swing.
Japanese media focused on testimonies surrounding the suspect's 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami's mother donating a lot of money to a religious organization and going bankrupt in 2002, and Yamagami eventually had to drop out of college.
The day before the sniper, he test fired a priest's gun at the building of a religious group he had held a grudge against.
As interest in the religious group was focused, the group held a press conference yesterday and made a statement.
[Tomihiro Tanaka/President of the religious group Japan: (Yamagami's mother) has been participating in the event about once a month, and we have never asked for or demanded donations.]
In Yamagami's house, A notebook full of grudges and a total of five priests were found.
She said that at first she tried to make bombs, but she gave up because she killed unrelated people. stated in