French President Emmanuel Macron refused to attend the state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot by an assassin on July 8. "It is related to Macron's workload inside the country." Tokyo's Sankei newspaper reports, citing French government sources.
According to them, the option of sending one of the country's former presidents, Nicolas Sarkozy or Francois Hollande, to Tokyo is being developed.
