US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will visit Japan on Monday to offer condolences over the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Blinken, who was in Bangkok on Sunday as part of his Asian tour, will travel to Tokyo to offer condolences to the Japanese people.
Japan's longest-serving prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot at on Friday while campaigning. He breathed his last later that day. Abe being shot was a very rare gun crime in one of the world's safest countries.
“The alliance between Japan and the United States has been a cornerstone of our foreign policy for decades,” Blinken said Saturday after Group of 20 talks in Bali, the Japan Times reported. “The US-Japan Alliance is the cornerstone of peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific and has never been stronger,” Ned Price said.
Blinken was in Bali, attending the G20 summit. Apart from that he also held a bilateral meeting with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi.
