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Decoding the security failings behind Shinzo Abe’s assassination

By Tom Rogan
Published July 8, 2022 6:01pm ET
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Decoding the security failings behind Shinzo Abe’s assassination
The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe evinces a major protective failure. As with the serving Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Abe was under the protection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Security Police division. Japan’s employment of a specialized unit of the capital city’s standing police force for protective operations is not uncommon. […]

The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe evinces a major protective failure.

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