11 Jul 2022

Japan: elections end for Upper House while country in mourning

From First Up, 5:51 am on 11 July 2022

Japan is a nation in mourning after the assasination of its longest serving Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. Mr Abe died in hospital on Friday morning after being shot while speaking at a political campaign event. Meanwhile, the nation headed to the booths to elect the government's upper house yesterday Our correspondent in Tokyo, Chris Gilbert, kindly agreed to stay up super late so he could bring us the latest on the election and the investigation into Shinzo Abe's assasination. Nathan Rarere asked him what he knew about the election results.