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Associated Press

Shinzo Abe obituary: Japan’s longest-serving PM was nation’s ‘most towering political figure for decades’

Shinzo Abe

(Picture: REUTERS)

Shinzo Abe was a divisive arch-conservative who was Japan's longest-serving prime minister and remained a powerful and influential politician after leaving office.

His death aged 67, after being shot during a campaign speech, has shocked Japan, one of the world's safest nations with some of the strictest gun control laws, and the world.

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