In his condolence speech at Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pointed out that he and Abe both won their first Lower House seats in the same 1993 election.

An eight-minute video of Abe’s life was shown to the Nippon Budokan audience. In his condolence speech, Kishida said: “I joined your Cabinet as foreign minister and as an ally living in the ...