U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Japan to express his condolences over the death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot while delivering a speech on a street in Nara, the State Department said Sunday.Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is planning to meet with Blinken on Monday, a Japanese government official said.Blinken, who is visiting Bangkok, will change his schedule and stop in Japan before returning to the United States.Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister who left office in 2020, was fatally shot Friday by a 41-year-old man who approached from behind whil…READ FULL ARTICLE
