Japan PM Shinzo Abe’s funeral Live Updates: PM Modi bows as he honours ‘friend’ Abe with flowers at state funeral
Shinzo Abe Funeral Live Updates, Japan State Funeral Live Japan fete taken former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Tuesday at the first state burial for a former premier in 55 times with flowers, prayers and a 19- gun salutation.
The form was attended by PM Narendra Modi, US Vice President Kamala Harris, and Australian PM Anthony Albanese, among others. The state burial started at10.30 am, following which PM Modi joined world leaders in paying their felicitations to Abe. PM Modi, who had preliminarily appertained to Abe as a “friend of India ” bowed and placed a small bouquet of white flowers as a mark of respect on the balcony.
Meanwhile, PM Modi, who arrived in Tokyo before onSept. 27, met with sitting PM Fumio Kishida and said that Abe took Japan- India relations to a lesser position. He told Kishida that he’s confident that India- Japan relations will consolidate further and achieve lesser heights under Kishida’s leadership.
Abe was shot from close range by a man with a manual gun while on the crusade trail in the western megacity of Nara. He was pronounced dead at the sanitarium on July 8.( Also read Who’s Tetsuya Yamagami, the man who shot Abe)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi bowed and placed a small bouquet of white flowers as a mark of respect on Shinzo Abe’s burial balcony on Tuesday.
#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays respect to former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe at the latter's State funeral in Tokyo
"India is missing former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe," said PM Modi earlier today
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Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako, Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko were specially absent from the burial form in Tokyo Tuesday.
This is because, as per Japanese tradition, it’s customary for emperors to not attend sepultures within the country or abroad, reported original media house Japan Times. still, they made an exception for Queen Elizabeth II’s burial in London before this month.
