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Japan's Prime Minister and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Fumio Kishida (center L) places a red paper rose on an LDP candidate's name to indicate the victory in the upper house election, along with his party executives at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on July 10, 2022.

World leaders are sending condolences on the sudden passing of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and commemorating ...