A Japanese guard, centre, holds the urn containing the ashes of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe during his state funeral in the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Sept. 27, 2022.

But opposition to honouring Abe with a state funeral, the first such event since 1967, has persisted, fed by an $15.7-million Cdn price tag to be borne by the state at a time of economic pain for ...

When Shinzo Abe's family held a funeral service a week after the former prime minister's assassination in July, mourners crowded streets near the temple where it took place. But more than two ...

The government says the funeral is not meant to force anyone to honor Abe. But most of the nation’s 47 prefectural governments are to fly the flag at half-staff and observe a moment of silence.

TOKYO (AP) — The leadup to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s controversial state funeral could seem like a never-ending exchange of heated words — both for and against. But it was ...

Mourners holding flowers line up toward to flower offering place near Nippon Budokan Hall which will host a state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 27. Reuters-Yonhap ...

Japan will spend about 1.65 billion yen ($12 million) on the state funeral planned for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to the government’s new estimate on Tuesday that includes ...

Guests attend the state funeral of assassinated former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe Tuesday Sept. 27, 2022, at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool) ...

Some information may no longer be current. A portrait of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his state funeral in Tokyo, on Sept. 27. POOL/Reuters ...

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attends the state funeral for Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe in the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on September 27, 2022. (Photo by Takashi Aoyama / POOL / AFP) ...

People leave flowers and pay their respects to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe outside the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, ahead of his state funeral later in the day.