The top bureaucrat of the Japanese police offered Thursday to step down to take responsibility for the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.Itaru Nakamura, commissioner general of the National Police Agency, expressed his intention at a press conference where the agency announced the results of its investigation into the police's failure to protect Abe when he was fatally shot while delivering a stump speech in the western city of Nara last month.The agency concluded that there was a "high likelihood that (the attack) could have been prevented" had the police planned to place o…READ FULL ARTICLE