2005-2006 – Chief cabinet secretary of the LDP ... February 2023 – Abe’s memoir, “Abe Shinzo: Kaikoroku,” is published. It was originally scheduled to be published a year ago, but ...

The Shinzo Abe administration’s politically ... The controversy arose four years ago when the Abe Cabinet decided to postpone the retirement of Hiromu Kurokawa, then head of the Tokyo High ...

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

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has barred Seiichiro Murakami, a former Cabinet minister, from taking official party posts as punishment for calling slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet on Aug. 26 approved spending of 249.4 million yen ($1.8 million) from the reserve fund to hold a state funeral for slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The ax will fall on four Cabinet ministers belonging to the largest ... said the LDP faction once led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had accumulated a “slush fund” of as much as 500 ...

The state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will cost an estimated 1.66 billion yen ($11.9 million), including security expenses, in taxpayer money, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has appointed Yoko Kamikawa as foreign minister, one of five female members of his new Cabinet that was formed on Sept. 13. The increase from two female ministers to ...

Here’s a look at the life of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Personal Birth date: September 21, 1954 Death date: July 8, 2022 Birth place: Nagato, Japan (some sources say Tokyo) Father: ...