According to Japan's TV Asahi, on the afternoon of July 9, local time, a hearse carrying the body of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived at his residence in Tokyo.
China News Service, August 17. According to Kyodo News, on August 16, about 850 people held a rally in Tokyo, Japan, to oppose the state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on September 27.
According to reports, on the 16th, in front of JR Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, Japan, people opposed to Abe's state funeral held a rally.
About 850 people attended the rally, according to organizers.
Participants expressed that "Abe, who has been held accountable in the Diet without answering questions, has been undermining democracy" and "Forcing people to pay tribute to a state funeral is an unconstitutional act".
The non-fiction writer Kamada Kei, one of the organizers of the rally, mentioned that Abe had promoted the establishment of the "Specific Secrets Protection Law" and allowed the exercise of the right to collective self-defense. He criticized it for "eliminating objections and bringing Japan in the direction of strengthening its military."
After the rally, people marched around Shinjuku Station chanting slogans "against state funerals."
A 65-year-old female participant said: "Deciding a state funeral without parliamentary deliberation is not democracy. Compared with a state funeral, I hope that taxes will be used to deal with the new crown epidemic and rising prices."
On July 8, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed while giving a speech in the street. He was 67 years old.