In East Asia, this assassination has another angle. The attacker, Yamagami Tetsuya confessed that his mother is a scam victim of a religious group, and Abe Shinzo had a close relationship with the leader of the group. Yamagami attacked Abe in broad daylight to revenge for his mother. In East Asian culture, this is so dramatic, almost like those legendary assassins in the old tales who fearlessly stood against the kings or emperors to defend their beliefs or families, and yet were gentle enough not to hurt anyone else. In Japanese forums, the heroization of Yamagami has already begun.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220709/p2a/00m/0na/00...
just to put things into perspective: how would people react to Trump's or Putin's death?
But the west won't talk about it, because they'd have to talk about how everyone is against the plan to put an American military base in Okinawa and Abe was the one lobbying for it
For some he was an enemy of the nation, not to mention how, just like in EU, was trying to weaken their economy for the sole purpose of making them even more dependent on the US
