Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced he was stepping down on Friday, citing health issues.

TOKYO -- Japan's longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said Friday he intends to step down because a chronic health problem has resurfaced. He told reporters that it was "gut wrenching" to leave ...

Shinzo Abe was no longer prime minister of Japan when the country first authorised COVID-19 vaccines, contrary to misleading ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday.

TOKYO (AP) — The people of Japan bid their final goodbyes Tuesday to assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He was gunned down Friday during a campaign speech. Abe, the country’s ...

A van believed to be carrying Tetsuya Yamagami, a man accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, arrives for a trial at the Nara District Court. while media members are reporting in ...

The failure to thoroughly reckon with Japan's wartime crimes after World War II (WWII) has left militarism dormant, only to erupt some day in the future if going unchecked. Although Emperor Hirohito's ...

A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, earlier admitted to killing Abe in July 2022 ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday. The case has revealed decades of cozy ties between ...