The suspect in the slaying a year ago today of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe still gets loads of letters from well-wishers and people sympathetic to his plight, sources say. Tetsuya Yamagami ...

July 8 will mark two years since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed while delivering a speech at a campaign rally in Nara. His widow, Akie, 62, said it took about a year for her ...

The homemade gun believed to have been used to kill former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears clunky and crude, but the creator clearly had considerable knowledge about weaponry, a firearms expert ...

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

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe floated the idea of Japan “sharing” in the possession of nuclear weapons, as is practiced by some NATO members, a possibility flatly rejected by Prime Minister ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is meeting Trump with two simple priorities: reaffirming the two countries' existing alliance and establishing a "personal relationship of trust." ...

The homemade gun used in the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apparently employed an electrical charge to ignite homemade gunpowder that would then fire off a volley of conventional ...

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 ...

A nephew of slain Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched his political career with a misstep and soon backtracked by removing a family tree from his campaign website that proved much more ...

NARA--Prosecutors here wrapped up their investigation into the man accused of murdering former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by bringing additional charges against the suspected assassin. Tetsuya ...

NARA--Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest serving postwar prime minister, died on July 8 after being shot while giving a speech in Nara. His death was confirmed at 5:03 p.m. by the Nara Medical ...