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VP Duterte represents PBBM in ex-Japan PM Abe's state funeral

Published Sep 26, 2022 05:21 pm

Vice President Sara Duterte is now in Tokyo, Japan to represent President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. in the state funeral for former prime minister Shinzo Abe.

Vice President Sara Duterte (left) shake hands with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (right) prior to the Japan-Philippine bilateral meeting at Akasaka Palace State Guest House in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2022, ahead of the state funeral for the former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. (David Mareuil / POOL / AFP)

Duterte left for Tokyo for Abe’s state funeral scheduled on Tuesday, Sept. 27, in Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, where about 6,000 guests, including foreign dignitaries, are expected to attend.

The Vice President was photographed meeting and shaking hands with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday, Sept. 26, ahead of the bilateral meeting that took place at the Akasaka Palace State Guest House in Tokyo.

A letter signed by Acting Deputy Executive Secretary for General Administration Lorajean Alamin with the Office of the President’s (OP) letterhead showed that Duterte will be away from Sept. 25 to 28 and had assigned Department of Education (DepEd) Undersecretary Epimaco Densing III as officer-in-charge.

READ: Densing named DepEd OIC during Duterte’s Tokyo trip

Her visit to Tokyo to attend the bilateral meeting and Abe’s state funeral is Duterte’s first official trip as vice president.

Meeting of Vice President Sara Duterte with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, Japan. (David Mareuil / POOL / AFP)

Last week, during a courtesy call by Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Kazuhiko Koshikawa at the Office of the Vice President (OVP) in Mandaluyong City, Duterte informed him of her intent to deliver letters of condolences from her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, and Marcos.

READ: VP Duterte set to fly to Japan for Shinzo Abe’s state funeral

“Inihayag ni Ambassador Koshikawa ang kanyang paunang pasasalamat sa aking nakatakdang pagbisita sa Japan sa susunod na linggo para sa state funeral ni yumaong (Ambassador Koshikawa expressed his gratitude for my planned visit to Japan next week for the state funeral of the late) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,” Duterte wrote on Facebook.

Abe’s state funeral will be held at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, and will be attended by more than 190 foreign delegations with around 50 of these led by top-level officials.

The former prime minister, who served from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2020, died in a hospital on Friday, July 8, after being shot twice while giving a speech during a political event in Nara, central Japan.

Duterte earlier remembered Abe for “his love and kindness for the Filipinos and Davao City.”

Abe went to former president Duterte’s home in Davao City during a visit to the country in January 2017. He was the first head of state to visit the country during Duterte’s administration.

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