<span style="color: #222222;">Japanese bid their final goodbye to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as his funeral was held yesterday at a temple days after his assassination. About 1,000 people, including Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, governing party leaders, and foreign officials, attended the funeral at the temple.<br />''<br />''Abe, the country's longest-serving prime minister, remained influential even after stepping down two years ago for health reasons.  Abe was shot at close range on Friday while giving a campaign speech in the city of Nara, days ahead of upper house elections that saw his ruling party strengthen its hold on power. The murder suspect, 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami, is in custody and has told police he targeted Abe because he believed the politician was linked to an organization he resented.<br />''<br />''Hundreds of people filled sidewalks outside Zojoji temple in downtown Tokyo to bid farewell to Abe.<br />''<br />''On Sunday, two days after Abe's killing, his Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner won a landslide victory in elections for the upper house.</span><br />