Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigned Friday because a chronic illness resurfaced and he said he did not want it to affect his decision-making. Abe, 65, has for years ...

Nara, May 17 (Jiji Press)--The trial of Tetsuya Yamagami, charged with murdering former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022, may begin this October, it has been learned. On Friday ...

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NARA--The cause of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s death was loss of blood, Nara prefectural police announced July 9 after performing an autopsy. In a related development, Abe’s body was ...

The Abe faction, which was headed by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe until he was fatally shot last year, and the Nikai faction have each held a fund-raising party once a year. Member lawmakers ...

Junichiro Matsumoto, 76, is charged with making false entries in the political fund reports of the faction once led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for the years between 2018 and 2022.

The ruling is the latest development in a decades-long dispute between the Church and disenfranchised former members — which became widely known in Japan following the assassination of former prime ...

Prosecutors and defense lawyers are arguing over whether “religious influence” can be used in the trial of Tetsuya Yamagami, who is accused of murdering former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

He assassinated Japan’s most successful politician ever. But now, he seems to have won over public opinion. What happened? Officials across US government scramble to implement Trump’s surprise ...

Japan’s first National Security Strategy was formulated by the second administration of former prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2013 and is a clear manifestation of this trend. Japan has also increased ...