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EXPLAINER: Why is Japan split over Abe’s state funeral?

The funeral for Japan's former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone is held by the cabinet and ruling Liberal Democratic Party, at a hotel in Tokyo in October, 2020. A rare state funeral Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022 for Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister who was assassinated in July, has split Japan. (Kyodo News via AP)

Then Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato speaks at the state funeral for late Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 1967. A rare state funeral Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022 for Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister who was assassinated in July, has split Japan. (Kyodo News via AP)

FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks on former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's funeral at the Council of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2022. A rare state funeral Tuesday, Sept. 27 for the former prime minister who was assassinated in July, has split Japan. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

FILE - People protest outside Diet against the state paying for Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's funeral in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2022. A rare state funeral Tuesday, Sept. 27 for the former prime minister who was assassinated in July, has split Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

EXPLAINER: Why is Japan split over Abe’s state funeral?