Shinzo Abe

A Japanese court says prosecutors have formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder.

Japan’s assassinated hawkish former leader, Shinzo Abe, has been honored by a rare and divisive state funeral that was full of militaristic pomp and surrounded by throngs of mourners as well as by widespread protests.

Several hundred protesters demanded the cancellation of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state funeral as they shouted slogans and waved banners in a Tokyo park. One demonstrator said Abe’s policies supported war and he feared a step back to militarism.   Abe was one of Japan’s most divisive postwar leaders because of his revisionist view of wartime history, support...

Japan’s national police chief says he will resign to take responsibility over the assassination of former leader Shinzo Abe last month.

The Church has ties to politically conservative leaders in the United States, Japan and Europe, including past Republican U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

Japan bid a final goodbye to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday as his funeral was held at a temple days after his assassination shocked the nation.

Public outrage, handwringing and vows of defiance in media and among political commentators are widespread in Japan following the daylight assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Part of the collective shock is because crime is so rare in Japan. But it can also be traced to the setting. Abe was killed on the street near a crowded train station,...

The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sent shudders through low-crime, orderly Japan.

The body of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been returned to Tokyo after he was fatally shot during a campaign speech in western Japan on Friday.

President Joe Biden offered his condolences Friday after the assassination of former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe.

Police on Friday raided the home of the man suspected of using an improvised firearm to assassinate former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and said they seized multiple weapons that also appeared to be homemade. The discovery followed the arrest of the suspect — identified by officials as Tetsuya Yamagishi, 41 — in the western Japanese city of Nara, where Abe...

President Joe Biden commented on the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, noting how unusual it is for someone to be killed by a firearm in Japan in contrast to the barrage of gun violence in the US.

Twitter and Facebook parent Meta said Friday they’re deleting any videos of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that break their rules on harmful content.

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday as he delivered a campaign speech in Nara, Japan. He was 67.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, one of his nation’s most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, hospital officials said.