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 prime minister of Japan knows he has big shoes to fill as he prepares to meet President Donald Trump, whose well-documented friendship with the late Shinzo Abe defined trans-Pacific ...

"Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey" would certainly ... In 2017, when Xi met with then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, their subsequent awkward handshake drew snarky internet denizens to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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--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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abe Shinzo has twice served as Japan's prime minister, and his family's political history stretches back decades. His grandfather, Kishi Nobusuke, served as prime minister between 1957 and 1960.