09-Aug-22 15:00

Aaron Denison, East Asian Political Commentator, Doctoral Candidate, Hiroshima University

It's been a month since the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The shooting came as a shock because Japan is considered one of the safest countries in the world, one where gun violence especially is very much unheard of in modern times. So what has been the sociopolitical fallout of his assassination?

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