U.S. Vice President Harris to attend slain ex-Japan PM Abe's state funeral

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris plans to attend a state funeral for slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next month in Tokyo, a diplomatic source said Sunday.Her visit to Japan for the Sept. 27 ceremony, which she will be attending in place of U.S. President Joe Biden, will be her first since she was sworn in as vice president in January 2021.From the United States, former President Barack Obama also plans to attend. The U.S. government is arranging to dispatch an advance team to Japan possibly late August, the source said.Harris, the first black and first Asian American U.S. v…READ FULL ARTICLE