A Senseless Murder, a Landslide Election in Japan

Japan reeled in the hours after the shooting of Abe Shinzo on July 8th. Shocked citizens lamented the death of both a towering politician—Japan's longest-serving post-war prime minister—and their collective sense of safety. Kishida Fumio, the country's current leader, looked distraught as he confirmed that upper-house elections scheduled for July 10th would continue as planned, casting the killing as a...