The attack came about a year after the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a campaign speech in Nara, another city in western Japan. Prosecutors said Kimura had a murder ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is being criticized for distributing gift certificates to 15 first-year lawmakers in ...

The Unification Church has come under intense scrutiny in the country since a former prime minister was assassinated, but it could soon fall even further from grace.

The Unification Church has come under intense scrutiny in Japan since a former prime minister was assassinated, but it could soon fall even further from grace. Former prime minister Shinzo Abe -- ...

If confirmed, the sect nicknamed the ‘Moonies’ may become the third religious group ordered to disband in Japan.

A man who threw a handmade explosive device in the direction of former Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has appealed the ruling of a prison sentence to a higher court.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged Monday to promote investment in refurbishing nuclear plants to ensure energy security, ...

Akiba, 62, served as reconstruction minister under former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida before ... programs under the former Democratic Party of Japan administration that led to his unwanted ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison ...