The Unification Church has come under intense scrutiny in Japan since a former prime minister was assassinated, but it could ...

Since 2022, two Japanese prime ministers have faced attacks, including the one that took Premier Shinzo Abe's life - Anadolu ...

Tetsuya Yamagami indicated he planned to kill former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in an anonymous ... gun to a venue in Okayama where Abe gave a speech for a candidate running in the Upper House ...

July 8, 2022 – Abe dies after being shot during a campaign speech in Nara. February 2023 – Abe’s memoir, “Abe Shinzo: Kaikoroku,” is published. It was originally scheduled to be ...

Akie Abe, widow of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on Friday praised U.S. President Donald Trump, who built a personal rapport with her husband during his first four-year term from ...

Just over a year earlier, Kishida’s predecessor, Shinzo Abe, was shot dead in the street during an election campaign speech in the old imperial city of Nara. Japan is considered one of the safest ...

Shoji Nishida, a House of Councillors lawmaker who belonged to a faction led by the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on March 12, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo ...

Kimura was arrested on the spot. The attack came about a year after the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a campaign speech in Nara, another city in western Japan.

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: ...