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EXPLAINER: Why is Japan split over Abe’s state funeral?
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A rare state funeral for Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister who was assassinated in July, has split Japan. The hawkish Abe was one of the nation’s most divisive postwar leaders, but it is the ruling party’s cozy ties with the ultra-conservative Unification Church that has fired
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