{"id":166795,"date":"2022-07-12T12:38:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=166795"},"modified":"2022-07-12T12:38:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:38:31","slug":"former-prime-minister-of-japan-shinzo-abe-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=166795","title":{"rendered":"Former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, assassinated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Nik Nayly<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR,\u00c2\u00a0 12 July 2022: Former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, 67, dies after being shot on Friday (July 8) while campaigning for an election in the city of Nara, Japan.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Hidetada Fukushima from Nara Medical University Hospital confirmed Shinzo Abes death at 5.03 p.m. due to excessive blood loss as the bullet had reached his heart.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, the suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, who used a homemade gun in the shooting, was arrested by police. He admitted to the crime as he holds a grudge against an unnamed organisation that is believed to be linked with Shinzo Abe.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government sources mentioned that the suspect, Yamagami, was a former member of Japans Maritime Self-Defence Force for three years.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities had confiscated other handmade weapons found in the suspects house.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides that, Malaysias Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dato Sri Saifuddin Abdullah in a press statement expressed his condolences to the family, government, and people of Japan for the demise of former Japan Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that Shinzo Abe will always be remembered for his significant contribution to Japans economic development, Malaysias Look East Policy, and the bilateral relations between Malaysia and Japan.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Prime Minister, Abe visited Malaysia three times and played a key role in advancing and diversifying further bilateral relations with Malaysia, Saifuddin said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, the longest-serving prime minister of Japan received an Honorary Doctorate in Political Economics during the 36th convocation ceremony at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in March, 2022.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IIUM community is deeply saddened by the passing of H.E. Dr Abe Shinzo and sends condolences to his family at this time of sorrow.***<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nik Nayly KUALA LUMPUR,\u00c2\u00a0 12 July 2022: Former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, 67, dies after being shot on Friday (July 8) while&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2752,"featured_media":166796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,20],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[11247,156,2752],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/125814360_gettyimages-630590200.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166802,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166795\/revisions\/166802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}