No other way to say it. He was murdered.
ADDED: Some western commenters claim China has not offered condolences. Wrong. They have, in quite some detail.(eg, below, added 10 July). Many online were not so gracious — celebrating Abe’s murder. There’s a lot of horrid stuff on China’s Weibo, just as there is on Twitter. (ADDED: China’s “pestilent swarms of ultra-nationalists”).
