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JAPANESE leader Fumio Kishida has said former prime minister Shinzo Abe is in a “severe condition” after being shot at a campaign event.

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was on the campaign trail ahead of the country's upper house elections when he was shot. Here's what we know so far.

Japan is reeling from the assassination of its longest-serving former prime minister, Shinzo Abe. He was campaigning for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for the Upper House elections due on Sunday, in the city of Nara in western Japan, when he was shot from behind with an apparently home-made sawn-off…

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — Japan’s longest-serving premier and a figure of enduring influence — was in grave condition after he was shot during a campaign event Friday, an attack that shocked a nation where political violence and guns are rare.

A strong showing by Japan's ruling party in upper house elections on Sunday would give Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a firmer grip on the factious party and allow him to emerge from the shadow of a powerful predecessor and define his premiership.

Japan's push to restart nuclear reactors, shut down after the Fukushima disaster a decade ago, could get a tailwind as the governing coalition looks set for gains in a national election on Sunday.

More than a dozen opposition parties are running in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, but they are no match for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s behemoth Liberal Democratic Party, which has reigned postwar Japan almost without interruption