Japan's Subservience to the US Obviously Isn't Working Out Too Well for the Japanese

Editor's note: As of 19 minutes ago Tokyo time, Japan's ex-prime minster Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead. How apropos in these times when politicians are held in contempt and very much disliked for a politician to be shot dead on a street dying in a gutter.

News update for 11 February 2023 on Abe Shinzo: Japan's Former PM Abe Confronted the US at His Peril.

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dies after being shot in Nara

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Source: East Asia

Japan's Ex-PM Abe Shot, Collapses at Speech in Western Japan: Reports

FILE - Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the media as he arrives at the prime minister's office for a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020.

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Japan's former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, was shot in the chest during a speech Friday ahead of Sunday's upper house election, according to the country's state broadcaster NHK.

Abe, who was speaking at a campaign event near a train station in the capital of Nara prefecture, collapsed and was bleeding after being shot by an unidentified man, NHK reported.

The 67-year-old Abe was taken to a hospital, the broadcaster said, adding that the alleged shooter has been detained. The country's Jiji news agency reported Abe was bleeding and unconscious.

Abe is Japan's longest continuously serving prime minister. He stepped down in August 2020 but has been active in politics. He remains an influential voice in the country's ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

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Prime ministers (UK's Johnson) and ex-prime minsters aren't too popular these turbulent days...apparently, a disgruntled ex-military type shot Shinzo Abe from behind with a homemade shotgun type of device. This kind of violence does not happen in Japan and in extremely rare cases when it does the Japanese do not know how to react, what their senses just registered or what to do including security.