Japan is holding a state funeral on Tuesday for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot dead with an improvised firearm at an election campaign rally in July, just days before a national election.
Thousands of people lined up to offer flowers and prayers in Abe’s honor at a mourning tent in Kudanzaka park near the site of the ceremony, the Budokan hall.
People queued to visit the mourning tent near the site of the funeral ceremony early on Tuesday, though not everybody in…