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With prayers, flowers and flags at half-mast, Japan on Tuesday bid farewell to Shinzo Abe, a towering figure who dominated politics as the country’s longest-serving prime minister before he was killed at a campaign rally last week in a killing that shocked the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Amid a heavy police presence, many filed into Tokyo’s central Zojoji Temple for the private funeral service. Others lined the sidewalks nearby.<\/p>\n
A car transported Abe’s body through the capital and then to the funeral hall.<\/p>\n
The car passed the headquarters of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) before heading to the prime minister’s residence, where Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other lawmakers welcomed the motorcade.<\/p>\n
He then walked past the parliament building, where Abe first entered as a lawmaker in 1993, before arriving at the Kirigaya Funeral Hall.<\/p>\n
Abe was Japan’s longest-serving post-war prime minister and one of its most influential politicians.<\/p>\n
And his death has sent shockwaves through a country where gun violence is extremely rare.<\/p>\n
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