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Once overcrowded Kyoto now longs for foreign tourists in Japan

Once weary of hordes of foreign tourists crowding its narrow streets and ignoring etiquette, many in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto are longing for their return — missing the revenue they brought before the country largely shut its doors to overseas visitors two years ago due to the pandemic.

Tribune News Service · Jul 11, 2022

Japan ruling bloc easily wins vote held days after Abe’s murder

Japan’s ruling coalition is projected to maintain its majority in an upper house election held Sunday, two days after the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who led the bloc to numerous victories during his term as premier.

Tribune News Service · Jul 10, 2022

Shinzo Abe: Japanese voters back party of former PM amid shooting fallout

Exit polls show LDP retaining power with comfortable election victory as country mourns former leader

The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2022

Japan votes for key election in shadow of Abe assassination

Japanese went to the polls Sunday in the shadow of the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, gunned down while making a campaign speech for the governing Liberal Democratic Party

The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2022

David Pratt: The latest from Japan, DRC, Afghanistan and Nicaragua

TODAY Japan goes to the polls in a parliamentary election. It does so, however, in the shadow of the killing on Friday of former prime minister…

The National (Scotland) · Jul 10, 2022

Japanese voters head to polls after ex-premier Abe’s murder

Voters in Japan headed to the polls Sunday for an upper house election, reeling from the death of long-serving former premier Shinzo Abe who was fatally shot on the campaign trail two days ago.

Tribune News Service · Jul 10, 2022

Abe shooter says his mother bankrupted by donating to religious group

The man who fatally shot former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told police that he initially planned to attack a leader of a religious group who he believed caused his mother to make big donations to the group, investigative sources said Saturday.

Bangkok Post · Jul 9, 2022

Japan's ruling coalition makes strong election showing after Abe killing

Japan's conservative coalition government increased its majority in the upper house of parliament in an election on Sunday, two days after the assassination of dominant politician and power broker Shinzo Abe.

Reuters · Jul 9, 2022

Shinzo Abe assassination: Japanese head to polls in grief and disbelief

Prime minister Fumio Kishida warns violence will not be tolerated in defiant speech after the murder of former leader

The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2022

‘Like time had stopped’: Japan grapples with Shinzo Abe’s loss

The former prime minister’s body returns to capital Tokyo as a shocked nation comes to terms with his assassination.

Al Jazeera · Jul 9, 2022