Hundreds of Foreign Dignitaries Expected to Attend State Funeral for Japan’s Slain Ex-PM Shinzo Abe

A mourner offers flowers next to a picture of late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, on the day to mark a week after his assassination at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters, in Tokyo on July 15, 2022. Issei Kato/Reuters

Preparations are continuing for the state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who was assassinated on July 8.

The funeral—Japan’s second full-state funeral since World War II—is scheduled for Sept. 27 at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo.