After his visit to Thailand, the US secretary of state will travel to Tokyo and “express his condolences to the Japanese people” during meetings with senior officials, State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will visit Japan on Monday to offer personal condolences following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday, the State Department announced today.
After his visit to Thailand, the US secretary of state will travel to Tokyo and “express his condolences to the Japanese people” during meetings with senior officials, State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
The man who killed Shinzo Abe believed the former Japanese prime minister was affiliated with a religious group, which he blames for his mother’s financial ruin, and had spent months planning the attack with a homemade weapon, police said.
41-year-old unemployed Tetsuya Yamagami was identified as Abe’s killer after video aired on Japanese television showing a man calmly walking up to the former prime minister and shooting him in the back.
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