Japan marks one year since the assassination of former PM Shinzo Abe as mourners pay tribute to his legacy outside Tokyo's Zozoji Buddhist temple
People formed a long queue outside Tokyo's Zojoji Buddhist temple, offering flowers before framed pictures of a smiling Abe / Photo: AFP
"I think he was the icon of Japanese people. He was the icon of the conservatives," said mourner Tomoko Shimoda, 57. Abe was gunned down in broad daylight while giving a campaign speech in western Japan, targeted by a man allegedly angry over the former leader's links to the Unification Church.
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