of the person he's always wanted to be a spar badly o in battery credit. that will go with i was born in berlin. scotch july 22nd on d w. you're watching d w news asia coming up today. elections in japan, deliver a super majority to the liberal democrats. as former prime minister sions obeys party, we take a closer look at how his assassination might have turned out voters and what this means for japan and the rest of asia and entree. longer the presidential palace has become the people's palace as protestors route the president from his home. what's next for the country? ah,

i melissa chan, thanks for joining us. japan's conservative coalition government ramped up its majority in the upper house of parliament in an election on sunday. campaigning took on grim significance after former prime minister sion though abi, japan's longest serving modern leader was gun down on friday in a shocking assassination. japan's governing, liberal democrats scored a major victory. and what was the somber election on sunday celebrations were overshadowed by grief at the assassination of the parties. dominant, politician and chief power brokers. sions obey. there's also uncertainty about what abe's killing means for japan going forward. final hobbies, hawkish, nationalist views were divisive, particularly his desire to reform japan's us, drafted pacifist constitution to boost defense spending. another key issue was that

of japanese, abducted by north korea in the 19 seventies and 19 eighties. prime minister formula, cachimba pledge to continue working on abbeys. legacy i been with authority no. or you get see, it took inheriting the legacy of abbe, especially abduction issues and the constitution amendment, which he put so much of his effort in childhood. i'll work on challenges that abbe could not solve him. his own. nun di, neat, tore condemned midas. abbe was shot during his speech in support of a local candidate in the western city of norah mourners laid reeds at the sight of the killing condemned by ki shita as an attack on democracy itself. people paid their respects across the country, the shooting shock, japan, a country with strict on laws and were politics are generally peaceful. i never imagined anything like this would happen. although this i did it, i'm hoping that by coming here,

my daughters will take an interest in politics and democracy would look them when i final thought. not what i got a u. s. secretary of state antony blinking, visited cuz she does official residence to offer condolences in his time and office premise. robbie did more than anyone to elevate the relationship between the united states and hand to new heights. abe's body has been brought to zoji temple in tokyo, where his funeral will take place on tuesday. japan will bid farewell to a leader who oversaw major changes that will continue to shape the countries politics, economy on foreign policy for years to come. joining us as kenmore yasenya k asia. diplomatic correspondent, welcome to the program. thank you for having me. has abbeys, assassination changed things for his governing party, the liberal democrats, especially given this weekend election results?

no, i think the past that, i mean it is firmly in place, especially after the korean war. japan needs to defend itself and i think that is really spread across it. now as mentioned in the report, one of our long term goals was to amend japan's pacifist constitution to allow it to become a military power. and he couldn't get that through as prime minister, but it looks like his party with its super majority will be able to now can you talk about that? right, so i've always thought that japan's constitution, especially article 9, which really announces the use of force me to central disputes and also prohibits to hold any military really held back to secondary country. and he wanted to change the constitution so that i could take responsibility and be a normal country that didn't happen because to change the constitution, you need

a procedures to get through although the number of seats and does allow this to happen. technically, we don't know if this actually will happen, according to opinion. the number of people who say they're ok to negotiating or discussing change in the constitution has grown significantly by 72 percent. it's ok to discuss amendment to the constitution 21 percent. there is no need to discuss any changes, but that doesn't automatically mean the chance concentration is going to be changed . now as diplomatic correspond and i'm curious what you think, what kind of an impact this would have if the constitution was changed in terms of the reaction from the rest of asia? well, what delta p is trying to do is change. positive article 9 prohibits

any land or sea military forces and right in the japan has a self defense force that protects the con country. technically, i don't think that's going to cause so much of a ripple effect in the region, right? so i had a relatively strong and clear vision for japan and its place in the asia pacific. he was hugely influential where we see continued regional leadership from japan and what is japan's thinking and strategy in the asia pacific? so i had a very strategic logic about how to defend japan, and he understood that japan's worst nightmare would to be have 3 front problems, the threat of china, the threat of north korea and the threat of russia. so he,

they strategically attempted diplomacy with russia and reached out to vladimir putin, met him over 20 times. and by doing that, he basically eliminated the threat that russia would invade japan. so he could focus on north korea and china and during the trump years, because trump was engaged in north korea, there was a little threat that north korea would attack japan. so basically, i could focus solely on china. the issue now is that because i didn't, administration is basically ignoring those clear threat has the most again and because of the ukraine, the russia threat as the most against the japan for the 1st time in many decades has a 3 from problem. and there is discussion of doubling the defense budget, but to face the re thread, some experts say that you may need to triple it. what is needed, therefore, for the new government, for the government going forward, is to try to eliminate one of those threats. can maria,

thank you so much for joining us. thank you very much. ah. after a month sir, sustained protests. sri lankan overran the presidential palace this weekend. casey president got to buy a raj, a pox or out of his home. at the moment, it is unclear who is running the government and how it will get out of this crisis that has meant a shortage of food and fuel plus crippling debt. if we're now, however, protesters celebrate what they hope will be the 1st step towards change for the country picking up rubbish in the garden of the presidential palace into neil, bon dora had taken part in protest for more than 90 days. he was injured so severely during one of them that he's been in a wheelchair ever since. what i've given me and i did this for my country.

what happened to me is irrelevant. we protested for so long until we finally achieved our goal. and this makes me really happy, i wanted to, they are be i'll do in america on saturday, tens of thousands of people filled the streets of sherland, his capital, colombo, they stormed government buildings and the presidents palace bowing to public pressure. most prime minister week remy singer and president go to buy a roger puck, sir, announced their resignations like many others in the new bon. dora sees the president as the main culprit for this crisis. he owned a small fabric factory but was forced to close at stores when orders stopped coming in. that left his family of 6 without the income they relied on. i them again a month and i meant i'm still living on my savings. i also donated to the protests, but because of the accident, i still had to pay for an operation very, which also costs me a lot of money and we were leading the worries,

fears and anger of the previous months of forgotten, at least for now, the presidential palace is usually sealed off and out of bounds for ordinary people . now it's become a tourist hotspot. thousands come here to see how go to buy a raja parks. i lived in luxury in his gym all by the pool. is really unbelievable. read and been that they're not sick on which and will come to us monday that finally come. and that is what we want that via vetting her more than 90 days for this day. so i think this is a very excited that all of us. he london, we are very happy and very we are very proud. but even with the president and prime minister gone, the countries problems remain sri lanka is more than 50000000000 euros in debt. many people have lost their jobs and barely have the money to feed themselves and

their families. well, i will didn't thought we now expect the country to be ruined by capable people. may we know that we have many talented young politicians here. they must now be given a chance and give hope back to the people of shall anchor with a reminder for it. i love it in a couple of them in an deal hope that he'll be able to reopen his factory when the crisis has passed. but that's not lodge he to be any time soon. marlin r jasa is a senior editor for the news magazine. him all south asian. he told us more about who's in charge in colombo and the prospects for forming a new government. so right now, since they haven't been any official designations the president asked, do they charge that article lot of questions and among the political parties who didn't form the government as parties, but we haven't, we haven't, we haven't been informed of consensus yet. so it's too much,

it's still very much develop the political situation right now in terms of the next document. local news has been reporting that does exist for the pm reading that comes in to continue entertain the presidency since the i in the discussions of the law. that also reports that the opposition of the family doctor had said discussion . and he's hoping to establish an impediment garments made up of 10 properties, but he still does not come on the majority in the bottom. but the protest, they have been demanding the recognition of the best. so if he also resigned, we might have a situation where the people of the parliament will be taking over the short that's it for monday, we leave you with these pictures out of japan as it continues to mourn the killing of it's the longest serving prime minister sions, obey thank you for watching and we'll see tomorrow.

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