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 ...

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 ...

Police seized a huge amount of explosive materials from the home of the man accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, investigative sources said. Nara prefectural police ...

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 ...

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.