The funeral for Abe, who was fatally shot while campaigning in Nara in July, will be held in Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan hall on Sept. 27. It will be Harris’ first visit to Japan since becoming ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arbitrarily decided to honor slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a state funeral. The Sept. 27 event in Tokyo was conducted amid fierce controversy that ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The home prefecture of slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a funeral service here Oct. 15 for its most famous son. The ceremony at the Kaikyo Messe ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida resumed his in-person news conferences on Aug. 31 following a bout with COVID-19 but still had no clear response to criticism over a planned state funeral for slain ...

TAIPEI--Taiwan will send a three-person delegation to attend the state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this month, including a former parliament speaker and a former premier ...

He assassinated Japan’s most successful politician ever. But now, he seems to have won over public opinion. What happened?

A friendship fostered while working at a Japanese restaurant in college led Steve Kasperbauer to an unlikely relationship with former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated over ...

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 ...

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Shinzo Abe was the prime minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history and was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

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 ...

A 72-year-old Nara resident was among the steady stream of mourners who placed flowers and watermelon juice that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe loved on a special stand set up in Nara on July 9.