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TOKYO — Shinzo Abe, Japan’s most influential former prime minister, was stumping on behalf of a junior politician from his party near a train station in Japan’s old capital city of Nara on Friday morning when he collapsed, bleeding, on the street. He was shot in the neck, doctors said, by a gunman who later admitted he had come to kill him.
Less than six hours later, Mr. Abe, the longest serving leader in Japan’s postwar history, was dead at age 67.
Until the assassination at the…
