Tokyo, 11 July, /AJMEDIA/
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who arrived in Japan on Monday to express his condolences over the death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Blinken changed his schedule following a trip to Thailand so he could stop over in Japan before returning to the United States.
Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister who left office in 2020, was fatally shot Friday by a 41-year-old man while he was delivering a stump speech on a street in the western city of Nara ahead of Sunday’s House of Councillors election.
Kishida on Saturday spoke with President Joe Biden by phone. They discussed how Abe’s legacy will live on as their countries continue the important task of defending peace and democracy, according to the White House.