Saturday marked one year since Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, was fatally shot during a campaign speech in Nara.
Many people visited a floral tribute stand set up near the site of the shooting in front of Kintetsu Railway Co.'s Yamato-Saidaiji Station in the city to pray for Abe, with some expressing their opposition to violence.
The shooting occurred at 11:31 a.m. on July 8, 2022, on a street in front of the station when Abe, 67, was making a speech on behalf of a candidate in the House of Councillors election. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
