9 Aug 2022

Japan: public not pleased with state funeral for Abe

From First Up, 5:13 am on 9 August 2022

In Japan, the public is not very pleased with the governmet's decision to hold a state funeral for the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who was a powerful member of the Liberal Democratic Party or LDP. But, not all is doom and gloom because the saga of the Yamaguchi man who ran with his town's Covid relief money has come to a surprisingly happy end. Nick Truebridge found out more from our correpondent Chris Gilbert.