Shinzo Abe, 67, was giving a speech at a campaign rally when he was shot twice from behind with what appeared to be a homemade gun. The gunman was wrestled to the ground by police after the shooting.

Japan Shinzo Abe calls Trump 'more modest than expected,' 'serious' in posthumous memoir Abe shared a public friendship with former President Trump, taking selfies and being photographed dining ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged then-President Donald Trump not to relent with North Korea and to keep up the threat of military pressure, according to his memoir.

TOKYO—World leaders and successors of Shinzo Abe paid tribute to Japan’s longest-serving prime minister at a state funeral, while thousands of people protested the event nearby.

In the wake of Shinzo Abe's assassination, Japan’s national police chief Itaru Nakamura said he would resign. A new report revealed problems with Abe's police protection.

This contrasts with his most-recognized predecessor, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose assassination on July 8, 2022, shocked the entire world. Abe’s views about nuclear weapons. Shinzo Abe was ...

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving leader in modern Japan, was fatally shot from close range during a campaign rally on July 8, two days before a parliamentary election. When ...

Mr Abe's shooting death in Nara, western Japan — by a man using a homemade weapon — shocked the nation, which rarely experiences gun violence, a situation that has led to complacency among ...

Older, more liberal lawmakers retired or passed away. New candidates recruited by Abe after his return in 2012, the so-called “Abe children,” were loyal to him and his policies.

On Tuesday, Japan said farewell to Shinzo Abe, the country’s longest-serving Prime Minister, who was assassinated on last week. Funeral processions for Abe, 67, started at Tokyo’s Zojoji ...

Akie Abe, wife of late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, accompanies her husband's body to a night vigil at a temple in Tokyo ...