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Shinzo Abe assassination: Japan marks 1-year since former PM gunned down

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On Saturday, Japan marked one year since former prime minister Shinzo Abe was gunned down during an election speech by a man angry at his links to the Unification Church. At a private memorial service at a Tokyo Buddhist temple, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, senior officials, lawmakers and Abe's widow Akie gathered to reflect on the past year. Kishida pledged that he would "carry on the will of the deceased Abe.”

"We will continue sowing seeds for the future including working on constitutional revision and measures to ensure stable imperial succession, and do our utmost to resolve national issues such as the abduction, as well as carve out a path to a new era with strength, " Kishida said during the gathering after attendees sang the national anthem and observed a moment of silence.

At an outside altar, mourners also expressed being “shocked” by the event last year and prayed that it would never happen again. “As for me, I will support politicians who carry on the work of Abe's administration,” said Atsuhiro Ueda, a 35-year-old office worker.

Abe is remembered for pursuing economic policies aimed at ending years of deflation, including aggressive monetary easing, fiscal stimulus, and deregulation. Critics said those measures also opened up an income gap. He also championed an aggressive defence policy that increased military spending and reinterpreted Japan's war-renouncing constitution to allow Japanese troops to fight overseas for the first time since World War Two.

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