Election resumes day after Abe shooting

Updated July 9 2022 - 11:31am, first published 11:29am
Japanese elections will go on, despite shock over the assassination of ex-prime minister Shinzo Abe.
Japanese elections will go on, despite shock over the assassination of ex-prime minister Shinzo Abe.

Campaigning in Japan has resumed on the final day of electioneering before polling for the upper house of parliament, even as the country reels from the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe by a gunman.

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