A top government spokesman said the cost of the state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came in at “around the level of 1.25 billion yen ($8.4 million),” 400 million yen less than ...

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 ...

People and officials gathered in Tokyo to bid farewell to Shinzo Abe, the former Japanese prime minister who was assassinated last Friday. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called Abe a visionary ...

Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty was one of many that attended Japan’s assassinated former leader, Shinzo Abe's, state funeral.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arbitrarily decided to honor slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a state funeral. The Sept. 27 event in Tokyo was conducted amid fierce controversy that ...

The government went ahead with the state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sept. 27 even though public opinion was largely opposed to the holding of the event. A car carrying Abe’s ...

Shinzo Abe was the longest-serving prime minister ... In a break with tradition, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida intends to hold a state funeral for Abe this autumn. But from his explanations to ...

The most solemn moments of the Sept. 27 state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came during the speeches given by his two successors. In his condolence speech at Nippon Budokan hall in ...

Some opposition party leaders skipped the Sept. 27 state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and those who did attend raised questions about the decision-making process for the event.

A state funeral will be held for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this autumn, which will be only the second for a former prime minister since the end of World War II. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ...

Two months after he announced a state funeral would be held for Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida belatedly stated his case for the decision at the Diet on Sept. 8. His remarks were ...

Several hundred protesters demanded the cancellation of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state funeral as they shouted slogans and waved banners Friday in a Tokyo park. “Abe’s policies ...