China News Service, September 27. According to Kyodo News, the Japanese government will hold the state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on the 27th.
Data map: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
According to reports, after Abe's ashes arrived at the Budokan on the 27th, Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hiroichi, who served as the funeral vice chairman, will make a speech at 2 pm to announce the funeral.
After the national anthem is played and a moment of silence will be played, a video of Abe's death will be played. Starting with Kishida, who served as the funeral chairman, the eulogy will be read aloud by the head of the three powers, and then the former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will deliver a speech as a representative of friends.
From the 26th to the 29th, the National Police Agency will invest up to about 20,000 people in the security posture for the state funeral.
In addition to the surrounding area of the venue, a large area of the central Tokyo metropolitan area has been strictly guarded by traffic control.
Around the state funeral, the government set up an intelligence liaison room at the official residence crisis management center on the 26th.
It is reported that about 700 delegations from more than 210 countries, regions and international institutions attended the state funeral, with a total of about 4,300 participants.
This is the second state funeral of a former prime minister after the war. The last one was about 55 years ago in 1967, the state funeral of former prime minister Shigeru Yoshida.