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 ...

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 ...

INSIGHT is a one hour long hard current affairs programme that aims to open the minds of viewers to the political, social and economic realities facing today's societies. Every week, a team of ...

NARA--Prosecutors on Jan. 13 indicted Tetsuya Yamagami for the murder last July of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, concluding after a lengthy psychiatric evaluation he was of sound mind at the ...

The two gunshots heard when former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead in Nara in July were not similar to typical gunshot sounds but were more like the sounds of fireworks, according to a ...

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.

NARA--Work began Dec. 19 to remove the guardrails set up around the site where former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot while giving a campaign speech on July 8. The city discussed with ...

President Trump and Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold joint press conference The leaders of the United States and Japan deliver remarks on the relationship between the two nations, and the ...