Shinzo Abe to be posthumously awarded Supreme Order of Chrysanthemum

Jeyla Aliyeva
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The Japanese government decided Monday to honor former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was gunned down Friday in the western city of Nara, with the Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum, the nation's highest decoration.

Report informs, citing Kyodo News, that Abe will be the fourth former prime minister to receive the decoration under the postwar Constitution after Shigeru Yoshida, Eisaku Sato and Yasuhiro Nakasone, according to the Cabinet Office.

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