Shinzo Abe’s body arrives in Tokyo as election campaign resumes in shadow of killing

Politicians vow not to let assassination stop democratic process, amid reports that gunman had gripe with unnamed religious group he linked to Abe

The body of Shinzo Abe has returned to Tokyo as politicians prepared to resume campaigning for Sunday's upper house elections in the shadow of the assassination of Japan's longest-serving prime minister.

On Saturday morning, a hearse believed to be carrying the body of Abe accompanied by his wife, Akie, left the hospital in Kashihara where the former prime minister was treated after being shot from behind by a gunman during a campaign speech in the western city of Nara. The hearse was later seen arriving at his residence in Tokyo, national broadcaster NHK reported.