아베 신조. 일본 전수상 총격 . 병원 후송. 심정지 상태. Shinzo Abe: Japan ex-PM 'in grave condition' after shooting

일본 혼슈 섬, 오사카 동쪽에 자리잡은, 일본의 구 수도,  '나라 Nara' 기차역에서 아베 신조 전 수상이 연설 도중,

테쓰야 야마가미 (41세)가 수제 총으로 아베 신보를 저격함. 테스야 야마가미는 2000년대 해군 자위대에서 3년간 복무한 것으로 알려짐.

 

테쓰야 야마가미는 붙잡혔고, 그 저격 동기는 아직 명료하지 않음.

총기 소유가 불법인 일본에서 정치인에 대한 총격이 발생한 것은 보기 드문 일이다.

 

 

 

Tetsuya Yamagami, 41. NHK reported that the suspect served in the Maritime Self-Defence Force for three years in the 2000s. 

 

해외 언론 보도.

 

Japan ex-leader Shinzo Abe in critical condition after being shot at campaign event

 

 

WARNING: This story contains a graphic image

 

 

The Associated Press · Posted: Jul 07, 2022 11:40 PM ET | Last Updated: 28 minutes ago

 

Japanese former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot Friday while campaigning in the city of Nara, Japan. (Jorge Silva/File Photo/Reuters)

 

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, an arch-conservative and one of the country's most divisive figures, was shot and critically wounded during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan. He was airlifted to a hospital but officials said he was not breathing and his heart had stopped.

 

Police arrested the suspected gunman at the scene of the shocking attack in a country that's one of the world's safest and has some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere.

 

 

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Abe was in "severe condition" and he hoped Abe will survive. He called the attack "dastardly and barbaric" and added that the crime occurring during the election campaign, which is the foundation of democracy, was absolutely unforgivable.

 

 

Kishida and his cabinet ministers hastily returned to Tokyo from other campaign events around the country after the shooting. "I'm praying for former prime minister Abe's survival from the bottom of my heart," Kishida said at the prime minister's office after he arrived on a defence helicopter from Yamagata.

 

 

 

He said Abe was receiving the utmost medical treatment. Abe, who is 67 and was Japan's longest-serving leader before stepping down in 2020, was in cardio and pulmonary arrest as he was being airlifted to the hospital, local fire department official Makoto Morimoto said.

 

 

Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe, centre, falls on the ground in Nara, western Japan Friday. Abe was in heart failure after apparently being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, NHK public television said. (Kyodo News/The Associated Press)

 

 

NHK public broadcaster aired dramatic footage of Abe giving a speech outside of a main train station in Nara. He is standing, dressed in a navy blue suit, raising his fist, when a gunshot is heard. Footage then shows Abe collapsed on the street, with several security guards running toward him. He is holding his chest, his shirt smeared with blood.

 

Suspect arrested

 

 

In the next moment, security guards leap on top of a man in grey shirt, who lies face down on the pavement. A double-barrelled device which appeared to be a handmade gun, can be seen on the ground.

 

Nara prefectural police confirmed the arrest of a suspect for alleged attempted murder and identified him as Tetsuya Yamagami, 41. NHK reported that the suspect served in the Maritime Self-Defence Force for three years in the 2000s.

 

Other footage from the scene showed campaign officials surrounding Abe. The popular former leader is still influential in the governing Liberal Democratic Party and heads its largest faction, Seiwakai. Elections for Japan's upper house, the less powerful chamber of its parliament, are Sunday.

 

On the left side of the image, an white emergency vehicle with red lights on top parked on a street. A man in a blue uniform with a white hard hat stands in front of the vehicle. A crowd of people stands behind a guard rail on the right side of the image.

 

 

An emergency vehicle at the scene of where Abe collapsed and was later taken to hospital. (Kyodo/Reuters)

 

"A barbaric act like this is absolutely unforgivable, no matter what the reasons are, and we condemn it strongly," Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said.

 

The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper printed extra editions, which were quickly grabbed by people on the street to read about the shooting.

 

Nara, once the capital of Japan, is just to the east of Osaka on the country's main Honshu island.

 

Abe cited a chronic health problem when he resigned as prime minister. Abe has had ulcerative colitis since he was a teenager and has said the condition was controlled with treatment.

 

Sought to rewrite constitution

 

 

He told reporters at the time that it was "gut wrenching" to leave many of his goals unfinished. He spoke of his failure to resolve the issue of Japanese abducted years ago by North Korea, a territorial dispute with Russia and a revision of Japan's war-renouncing constitution.

 

That last goal was a big reason he was such a divisive figure.

 

His ultra-nationalism riled the Koreas and China, and his push to create what he saw as a more normal defence posture angered many Japanese. Abe failed to achieve his cherished goal of formally rewriting the U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution because of poor public support.

 

 

Abe bumps fists with voters after delivering a campaign speech in Tokyo on June 22. (Issei Kato/File photo/Reuters)

Loyalists said that his legacy was a stronger U.S.-Japan relationship that was meant to bolster Japan's defence capability. But Abe made enemies by forcing his defence goals and other contentious issues through parliament, despite strong public opposition.

 

Abe is a political blue blood who was groomed to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, former prime minister Nobusuke Kishi. His political rhetoric often focused on making Japan a "normal" and "beautiful" nation with a stronger military and bigger role in international affairs.

 

Many foreign officials expressed shock over the shooting.

 

 

An aerial view shows the site after former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was apparently shot during an election campaign for the July 10, 2022 Upper House election. (Kyodo/Reuters)

 

 

Our thoughts, our prayers are with him, with his family, with the people of Japan," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said while attending a Group of 20 foreign ministers meeting in Bali, Indonesia.

 

 

Abe said he was proud of working while leader for a stronger Japan-U.S. security alliance and shepherding the first visit by a serving U.S. president to the atom-bombed city of Hiroshima. He also helped Tokyo gain the right to host the 2020 Olympics by pledging that a disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant was "under control" when it was not.

 

Won 6 national elections

 

 

Abe became Japan's youngest prime minister in 2006, at age 52, but his overly nationalistic first stint abruptly ended a year later, also because of his health.

 

The end of Abe's scandal-laden first stint as prime minister was the beginning of six years of annual leadership change, remembered as an era of "revolving door" politics that lacked stability and long-term policies.

 

When he returned to office in 2012, Abe vowed to revitalize the nation and get its economy out of its deflationary doldrums with his "Abenomics" formula, which combines fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms.

 

He won six national elections and built a rock-solid grip on power, bolstering Japan's defence role and capability and its security alliance with the U.S. He also stepped up patriotic education at schools and raised Japan's international profile.

 

With files from Thomson Reuters

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/japan-shinzo-abe-hospital-1.6514308

Japan ex-leader Shinzo Abe in critical condition after being shot at campaign event | CBC News

 

 

 

Shinzo Abe: Japan ex-PM 'in grave condition' after shooting

By Yvette Tan

BBC News

 

Watch: Aerials from the scene where former Japan PM Abe was shot

Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe is said to be in grave condition after he was shot at a political campaign event.

 

Mr Abe was shot at twice while he was giving a speech in the southern city of Nara on Friday morning.

 

He immediately collapsed and was rushed to the nearest hospital. Pictures taken at the scene showed him bleeding.

 

Security officials at the scene tackled the gunman, and the 41-year-old suspect is now in police custody.

 

In an emotional press conference a few hours later, prime minister Fumio Kishida told reporters that Mr Abe was in a "very grave condition".

 

"Currently doctors are doing everything they can," said Mr Kishida who appeared to be holding back tears, adding that he was "praying from his heart" that Mr Abe would survive.

 

He also condemned the attack, saying: "It is barbaric and malicious and it cannot be tolerated."

 

The Fire and Disaster Management Agency confirmed that Mr Abe had a bullet wound on the right of his neck, and also suffered subcutaneous bleeding under the left part of his chest.

 

It is unclear if both shots hit him, or if a bullet hit him on the neck and travelled elsewhere.

 

National broadcaster NHK said Mr Abe was "conscious and responsive" while being transported to the hospital, citing police sources.

 

But it also quoted a senior member of Mr Abe's party as saying the 67-year-old's situation was "worrisome" and that he was getting a blood transfusion.

 

Ex-Tokyo governor Yoichi Masuzoe had earlier said in a tweet that Mr Abe was in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest. The term is often used before a death is officially confirmed in Japan.

 

Eyewitnesses see man with large gun

 

Mr Abe was giving a stump speech for a political candidate in Nara at a road junction when the attack happened.

 

Eyewitnesses said they saw a man carrying what they described as a large gun and firing twice at Mr Abe from behind.

 

Security officers detained the attacker, who made no attempt to run, and seized his weapon which was reportedly a handmade gun.

 

The suspect has been identified as Nara resident Tetsuya Yamagami. Local media reports say he is believed to be a former member of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force, Japan's equivalent of a navy.

 

Mr Abe's speech came as part of a campaign for his former party, the Liberal Democratic Party, as upper house elections in Japan are due to take place later this week.

 

Ministers across the country were later told to return to Tokyo immediately, according to local reports.

 

Presentational grey line

 

Analysis box by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, Japan correspondent

 

The first question many people will be asking is what was the gun used and how did the shooter get hold of it?

 

The answer appears to be that he may have built it himself.

 

Photographs taken as the suspect was being apprehended show what looks like an improvised, or home-made, double-barrelled shotgun.

 

Gun violence is very rare in Japan, and guns are extremely difficult to own. Political violence is also extremely rare.

 

Mr Abe did have a team of security police with him. But it appears the shooter was still able to get to within a few meters of Mr Abe without any sort of check, or barrier.

 

The shooting of such a prominent figure is profoundly shocking in a country that prides itself on being so safe.

 

Presentational grey line

 

 

Mr Abe, who was Japan's longest-serving prime minister, held office in 2006 for a year and then again from 2012 to 2020, before stepping down citing health reasons.

 

He later revealed that he had suffered a relapse of ulcerative colitis, an intestinal disease.

 

While he was in office, he was known for his hawkish policies on defence and foreign policy, and has long sought to amend Japan's pacifist post-war constitution.

 

He also pushed for an economic policy that came to be known as "Abenomics", built on monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reforms.

 

The hawk who gave his name to 'Abenomics'

 

He was succeeded by his close party ally Yoshihide Suga, who was later replaced by Fumio Kishida.

 

A general view shows workers at the scene after an attack on Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe at Kintetsu Yamato-Saidaiji station square in Nara on July 8

 

 

Workers at the scene after an attack on Mr Abe at Kintetsu Yamato-Saidaiji station square

 

 

Incidents of gun violence are rare in Japan, where handguns are banned - and incidents of political violence are almost unheard of.

 

In 2014, there were just six incidents of gun deaths in Japan, as compared to 33,599 in the US. People have to undergo a strict exam and mental health tests in order to buy a gun - and even then, only shotguns and air rifles are allowed.

 

Prominent voices across the world have been quick to condemn the incident, with former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd calling it an "attack on supporters of democracy".

 

 

The US ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said Mr Abe had been an "outstanding leader of Japan and unwavering ally of the US", adding that the US was "praying" for his well-being.