TOKYO -- Japan's longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said Friday he intends to step down because a chronic health problem has resurfaced. He told reporters that it was "gut wrenching" to leave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tetsuya Yamagami, bottom, is detained near the site of the assassination in Nara, western Japan, on July 8, 2022. - Katsuhiko ...

A vehicle carrying Tetsuya Yamagami, who is accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, enters the Nara District Court in Nara A vehicle carrying Tetsuya Yamagami, who is accused of ...

The assassination of Shinzo Abe left Japan stunned and uncertain. Nearly two years later, the nation is still reckoning with ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday. The case has revealed decades of cozy ties between ...

Will he or won’t he? As Aug. 15, the 68th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, approaches, it’s time to take bets on whether Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Tokyo’s Yasukuni ...

He could only stay away for so long. On Dec. 26, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, where wartime criminals are honored. It was exactly a year after the ...

Since 2022, a series of scandals – notably those related to the Unification Church and political funding – has damaged the reputation of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has dominated ...

The man who killed Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a homemade gun was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, public broadcaster NHK reported. The ruling concludes a trial over an ...