Japanese mayor raps lack of PM Kishida security in wake of Abe killing

The mayor of a western Japanese city, who witnessed the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, criticized on Thursday the lack of security that culminated in the weekend attack against Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, noting how lessons from the July 2022 shooting had not been learned.Nara Mayor Gen Nakagawa said it is hard to believe that precautionary measures were seriously lacking before Kishida was about to make a stump speech on Saturday in the city of Wakayama where a man threw an explosive device at the prime minister.Kishida was uninjured and his attacker was arrested at t…READ FULL ARTICLE