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A court has convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan’s former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison. The Wakayama District ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday his son is resigning as his executive policy secretary to take responsibility for using the prime minister’s residence for a private party at which the ...

Kishida said he and Biden had “nurtured a friendship ... astronaut under the program. Write to Ken Thomas at [email protected], Peter Landers at [email protected] and Chieko Tsuneoka ...

Kishida, whose voter support has slumped to record ... “This has been a bitter lesson for Japanese government and business,” said Ken Weinstein, the Japan chair at the right-leaning Hudson ...

Ryuji Kimura (L) claimed his intention was not to kill Kishida, but to object to the country's election age regulation which prevented him from getting into politics. A man has been sentenced to ...

A man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at former Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event denied that he intended to kill the politician as his trial began Tuesday at a court in ...

WASHINGTON--Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida cracked jokes and invoked a touchstone of American culture as he quoted from “Star Trek” at Wednesday’s state dinner, telling guests at the ...

WAKAYAMA—A man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on attempted murder, election law violation and other charges in an attack on then Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in 2023 at the site of a ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has given the official nod to significantly boost Japan’s defense budget to 2 percent of gross domestic product in fiscal 2027, according to the ministers of finance ...