Security Breakdown of Japan
Before marking the first anniversary of assassination of Shinzo Abe, a very important politician was attacked with fire arms in Japan. It was made against the sitting Prime Minister this time. A young man threw an explosive device at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida who visited the city of Wakayama on Saturday to give a speech in an election campaign of the supplementary elections of House of Representatives. Although Kishida could managed to escape the blast before the device exploded, the government he was leading revealed its crucial vulnerability to terrorist attack. It was about half an hour before noon when Kishida tried to start his speech toward the people in Wakayama, and then a young man named Ryuji Kimura, living in Hyogo prefecture, threw a silver metal pipe into the place. A policeman beside Kishida immediately noticed the device and evacuated the prime minister from the spot. According to the news reports, the device exploded with a large sound about fifty seconds after it wa