Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated at a campaign rally on Friday. Summary Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving postwar prime minister, was assassinated on Friday at a campaign event in Western Japan. Abe was gunned down in the city of Nara by a shooter wielding an apparently homemade gun. He was shot twice in the back while giving a stump speech for a political candidate. Abe immediately collapsed and was rushed to the nearest hospital where …
