“I think everyone is still in shock over this murder. Shocked at the loss suffered by his family, his friends and the world,” Mr Blinken said to his Thai counterpart Don Pramunduinai yesterday on Sunday.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Tokyo today, making an unscheduled short visit to offer personal condolences to Japan over the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The US top diplomat landed at the Yokota military base near Tokyo on his way to the US after his tour of Southeast Asia. He will only stay a few hours in the Japanese capital, where he will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Shinzo Abe, a figurehead of the Japanese right, the longest-serving prime minister in the archipelago, has been a staunch supporter of strengthening military and diplomatic cooperation with the US. He was killed by a gunman on Friday in the middle of an election speech in Nara (west).
“I think everyone is still in shock over this murder. Shocked at the loss suffered by his family, his friends and the world,” Mr Blinken said to his Thai counterpart Don Pramunduinai yesterday on Sunday. The shock is “deep throughout the region and the world,” he insisted.
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