Tokyo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Tuesday to attend the state funeral of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe.
Modi will join several global leaders to pay tributes to Abe.
As he reached Japan to pay tributes to the late prime minister, PM Modi tweeted ‘Landed in Tokyo’ on Twitter.
Landed in Tokyo. pic.twitter.com/8L4VNNVOUL
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 26, 2022
While giving a speech during an election campaign, Abe was shot at about 11:30 am local time in Nara on July 8, east of Osaka. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead at 5:03 pm.
Shinzo Abe was Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister when he stepped down in 2020 due to health reasons. He was Prime Minister of Japan twice, from 2006-07 and from 2012-20. In 2020 after resigning, he was succeeded by Yoshihide Suga and later by Fumio Kishida.
Japan is hosting a state funeral for Abe in Tokyo which will have foreign dignitaries from all over the world.
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