Shigeru Ishiba, the head of Japan’s governing party, plans to call a parliamentary election to be held on Oct. 27 after he is elected as prime minister on Tuesday.

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attends the state funeral for Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe in the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on September 27, 2022. (Photo by Takashi Aoyama / POOL / AFP) ...

Abe was Japan’s longest-serving leader before stepping down in 2020. Public television NHK aired a dramatic video of Abe giving a speech outside a train station in the western city of Nara.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's assassinated hawkish former leader, Shinzo Abe, was given a rare state funeral Tuesday full of military pomp and surrounded by throngs of mourners as well as by widespread ...

He was pronounced dead later at the hospital. Abe was Japan's longest-serving leader, having served four terms in office before stepping down in 2020 for health reasons.