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 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 ...

Politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party showed mixed reactions to an Asahi Shimbun article about a 2013 meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the head of the Unification Church.

This involved fending off resistance within his own party and paying his respects to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Kishida had to quickly shift from addressing one crisis at home--how to ...

Sunao Takao was the loyal interpreter at Shinzo Abe’s side, helping Japan’s then-leader to understand Donald Trump as they navigated contentious issues while riding around in golf carts.

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe succeeded in winning over a wide range of supporters with his multifaceted political approach, according to a media researcher. Two years after the famed ...

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 ...

On the morning of July 11, Sato, 43, visited a flower memorial for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe set up near the site where he was fatally shot, to offer his prayers. Sato had stood right ...

Swiss President Ignazio Cassis posted on Twitter on Friday that he was “deeply saddened by the death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe”. Cassis also condemned the assassination, and sent ...

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: ...