In the days after Shinzo Abe was shot dead last summer while making an election campaign speech, commentators struggled to articulate a motive for a seemingly senseless attack on Japan’s former and longest-serving prime minister.
Abe’s violent death was an affront to democracy, said the prime minister, Fumio Kishida, adding that his mentor would be given a state funeral.
But Kishida was mistaken if he believed that Abe’s controversial, and expensive, official farewell would achieve closure. Eight months on, the fallout from the killing is still
