Three hundred miles east, in Tokyo, a journalist named Eito Suzuki saw the news break on TV: Abe, the longest-serving Prime Minister in Japanese history, was dead. Suzuki was at home, about to leave for a hotel staycation with his wife and son. Everything about the story was shocking—the fact of the gun, the lapse in security, the surreal death of one of the most powerful men in the country.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter