Shinzo Abe - 's longest-serving, best-known and perhaps most-consequential leader of modern times - is being laid to rest today in a private funeral in the capital Tokyo. Friends and family gathered inside the city's Zojoji temple - an historic and cultural landmarks that houses the bodies of generals from the Edo period - early Tuesday for the ceremony. Akie Abe, 60, the former-prime minister's widow, then emerged - riding in the front seat of a hearse that carried her husband's body past crowds of mourners thronging the streets outside the temple.
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