On July 8, 2022, in Nara, Japan, Shinzo Abe was shot twice with a homemade shotgun by Tetsuya Yamagami. Despite Abe’s towering status in Japanese politics — a former prime minister, and Japan’s ...

A Japanese Foreign Ministry official, who served as an English interpreter for the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is set to ...

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 swift succession of dignitaries visiting President Donald Trump in the Oval Office over the past two weeks well exceeds ...

Lee Jae-myung says he would support President Donald Trump’s efforts to restart talks with North Korea — and even consider ...

President Trump wants Russia to get back into the Group of 7 economic forum of top democratic economies from which it was ...

Mr. Ishiba has also tried to learn from one of his predecessors, Shinzo Abe, a long-serving prime minister who was shot and killed in 2022 after leaving office. Mr. Abe used face-to-face meetings ...

Amid all the White House commotion, the world barely seemed to notice last week when President Donald Trump threatened an ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has barred Seiichiro Murakami, a former Cabinet minister, from taking official party posts as punishment for calling slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a ...

Ishiba will also look to remind Trump — who has proposed tariffs on both friends and foes in an effort to boost American ...

Ryuji Kimura, 25, is on trial in Japan for allegedly attempting to murder former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida with a homemade ...