The Japanese objected to public funds for Shinzo Abe’s state funeral

Japan will spend 1.83 million US dollars on the funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot dead at an election rally on July 8, and his funeral will be held at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan on September 27. The current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government has decided to fund the state funeral. But the results of a survey among Japanese people show that they are against it. 53 percent of respondents were against state funerals. Most of the respondents demanded the disclosure of the relationship between the ruling party and the Unity Church.