NARA--A legal loophole has prefectural police scrambling in their efforts to pile on an additional charge of illegal use of a weapon in the slaying here of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in ...

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 ...

The attack came about a year after the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a campaign speech in Nara ... and demanded a 15-year prison term. Gun-related crime is rare in Japan ...

Here’s a look at the life of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.PersonalBirth date: September 21, 1954Death ...