Japan reeled in the hours after the shooting of Abe Shinzo on July 8th. Shocked citizens lamented the death of both a towering politician—Japan’s longest-serving post-war prime minister—and their collective sense of safety. Kishida Fumio, the country’s current leader, looked distraught as he confirmed that upper-house elections scheduled for July 10th would continue as planned, casting the killing as a challenge to democracy itself. The next day, well-wishers gathered outside Mr Abe’s home in Tokyo’s Tomigaya district to meet the hearse carrying his body back from Nara, the ancient capital where he was killed.
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