Fun Learning Time for Lesson On Buddhist Hells
Just so y'all know according to Japanese belief of what is happening to Shinzo Abe right now.
Shinzo Abe is now in Jigoku (Japanese word for hell) and is awaiting to see king Enma who will judge his soul and see if he's worthy of a good Samsara (Buddhist rebirth). The 5 realms he could go to are gods, demigods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts (sixth is hell). If he's going to one of the hells he will be sentenced.
The human rebirth is immensely unlikely.
"A human birth is said to be so rare and precious that a turtle surfacing in a vast ocean is more likely to put his head through a small ring floating on the surface than we are to get a human birth." Most people who are good are rebirthed as Animals. Theres hot hells and cold hells and special hells for special types of crimes. Buddhist hell is very specific, there are hells for animal abusers who get torn apart by animals they hurt, for example.
This article in English is mostly correct about some of the hells you can experience. Buddhist hell eventually lets you be retried and leave though because Buddha is merciful. But first you have to wait to be judged.
So he's going to be waiting in line in a queue for a few months to go get his soul weighed having to cross the sanzu river etc...
In other words, even in Japanese afterlife you cannot escape compact quarters, queues and being judged harshly by a superior.