Shinzo Abe’s body taken to Tokyo as election campaign resumes in shadow of killing

The body of Shinzo Abe has begun its journey back to Tokyo as politicians prepared to resume campaigning for Sunday’s upper house elections in the shadow of the assassination of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister.

On Saturday morning, a hearse thought to be carrying the body of Abe and accompanied by his wife, Akie, left the hospital in Kashihara where the former prime minister was treated after being shot from behind by a gunman…