Shinzo Abe’s funeral will cost more than Queen Elizabeth’s funeral! Strong protest in Japan

Tokyo. Protests appear to intensify over the political funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to be held next week in Japan’s capital Tokyo. Shinzo Abe was assassinated in July this year and it is now reported that the Japanese government is going to spend around 1.66 billion yen on his funeral, which is reportedly more than the cost of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.

Media reports said that Abe’s funeral is estimated to cost 1.66 billion yen (about Rs 94 crore), while Queen Elizabeth’s funeral is estimated to cost around 1.3 billion yen (about Rs 73.7 crore).

According to a report in The Guardian, the Japanese government had put the estimated cost of Abe’s political funeral at $250 million. According to Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, 80 million yen is expected to be spent on policing during the event, while 60 million yen is expected to be spent on hosting the dignitaries. According to the report, Matsuno further said that the funeral bill could reach 1.7 billion yen.

Political funerals are extremely rare in Japan

Funerals with political honors are a rare event in Japan, but Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Abe deserved it because he was the country’s longest-serving leader since World War II. Under whose rule Japan made remarkable diplomatic and economic achievements.

public anger

At the same time, people are expressing concern that Japan recently spent $ 13 billion on the Tokyo Olympics, which was almost double the estimated budget of the event. An elderly man set himself on fire near the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday to protest the political funeral of Shinzo Abe. The elderly man who committed suicide is over 70 years old and a major part of his body was burnt. However, he was conscious and is currently undergoing treatment at the hospital.

According to the news agency Kyodo News about the incident, a note purportedly written by the elderly man was recovered from him, which said, ‘Personally, I am Shinzo Abe (former Prime Minister of Japan) I love Why are you against political honor and funeral. Secrament?

Protests against the former prime minister’s political funeral have erupted in Japan after more information emerged from the Unification Church about Abe’s ties with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Abe’s alleged killer also reportedly felt that his mother’s donations to the Unification Church had ruined their family. The LDP has said that nearly half of its MPs are affiliated with the Unification Church. (with AP input)

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