Akio Yaita analyzed the leaders of various countries who may attend the funeral of Shinzo Abe.Flip from: Yaita Akio’s Facebook
The state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be held this fall. The Taipei Branch Director, Akio Yaita, analyzed that the leaders of the country that Japanese people are most concerned regarding whether to attend include President Biden of the United States, President Putin of Russia, President Xi Jinping of China, and President of my country. Tsai Ing-wen.
Akio Yaita believes that for the funeral of Emperor Showa in 1989, the old American President Bush and his wife specially rushed to Tokyo. Given the importance of Japan-US relations today, Biden will have a high chance of attending in person. Akio Yaita predicted that if Biden can come to attend, Abe’s funeral may become a swearing-in meeting of democratic countries once morest China. Putin and Abe have good interactions. If they attend, they can also use this opportunity to ease relations with European and American countries.
Akio Yaita pointed out that how Japan will arrange the seats of Putin and other countries will be a very difficult matter, and speculates that the Japanese side may use some technical operations to avoid Putin’s visit.
Akio Yaita believes that Abe’s state funeral should be before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Therefore, for Xi Jinping, it is a good opportunity to show his presence internationally. And pointed out that if Xi Jinping does not go to Japan, democratic countries will gather to discuss how to deal with China. However, it is still difficult to determine whether China’s domestic political situation will be tense and whether Xi Jinping will be able to attend. Akio Yaita calculated that Xi Jinping has not been abroad for almost 3 years, and he has become the most famous otaku in the world, and the probability of attendance is quite low.
Many conservative celebrities in Japan and supporters of Abe have loudly called on the Kishida cabinet to invite Tsai Ing-wen on the Internet. Akio Yaita said that Japan and Taiwan do not have diplomatic relations. In the official diplomatic occasion of the state funeral, if Japan wants to invite Taiwan, it may have to overcome some obstacles.
Since the last state funeral held in Japan, in February 1989, the “Great Funeral Ceremony” following the death of the Emperor Showa of Japan. Almost all countries in the world sent representatives to participate, even if they did not have enough friendship or budget, they also sent their diplomats to Japan.
