He assassinated Japan’s most successful politician ever. But now, he seems to have won over public opinion. What happened?

The suspect in the slaying a year ago today of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe still gets loads of letters from well-wishers and people sympathetic to his plight, sources say. Tetsuya Yamagami ...

The homemade gun believed to have been used to kill former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears clunky and crude, but the creator clearly had considerable knowledge about weaponry, a firearms expert ...

Comments from Abe Shinzo and his widow Abe Akie suggest that they saw cowardice lurking behind Trump’s bravado.

A nephew of slain Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched his political career with a misstep and soon backtracked by removing a family tree from his campaign website that proved much more ...

July 8 will mark two years since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed while delivering a speech at a campaign rally in Nara. His widow, Akie, 62, said it took about a year for her ...

The homemade gun used in the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apparently employed an electrical charge to ignite homemade gunpowder that would then fire off a volley of conventional ...

Shinzo Abe’s confident and dynamic leadership has revived Japan’s economy and prospects since he became Prime Minister in December 2012. As a statesman, he is both resilient and pragmatic ...

NARA--Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest serving postwar prime minister, died on July 8 after being shot while giving a speech in Nara. His death was confirmed at 5:03 p.m. by the Nara Medical ...

People in Japan—and around the world—are waiting for an update on the condition of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo after he was shot in Nara city. This is how the tragedy is unfolding ...

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe floated the idea of Japan “sharing” in the possession of nuclear weapons, as is practiced by some NATO members, a possibility flatly rejected by Prime Minister ...

Fukushima says Abe's wife arrived in the late afternoon. At 5:03 p.m., four and a half hours after the former prime minister was brought to the hospital, they stopped treatment. Security failure ...