Mourners paid their respects to Shinzo Abe at Zojoji Temple on Tuesday ahead of a private funeral for the assassinated former Japanese prime minister. Abe was shot last week during a campaign event in the western Japanese city of Nara and was pronounced dead after being airlifted to a hospital.
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