Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is safe.

After the smoke bomb attack that happened as he was about to give a speech on the local elections campaign trail, he simply moved on to his next engagement.

But this is still shocking.

One: because Japan is one of the safest countries in the world and has very strict gun controls.

Two – perhaps more crucially – because this smoke bomb attack happened less than a year after Shinzo Abe, Mr Kishida’s predecessor, was assassinated – also while giving a speech among a crowd on a campaign trail.

[The picture at the link is horribly dramatic, catching the smoke bomb mid-flight, heading toward Kishida. Thank God he’s alright. ~ Beege]