Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plan to provide two cloth masks for each household, an anti-coronavirus measure that was ridiculed on social media, will cost 46.6 billion yen ($424 million ...

NAGOYA--Thousands of rejected free face masks that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered to send to every household in Japan are finding their way to those that want them, thanks to a group of medical ...

In spring 2020, then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had promoted the masks as a priority safety measure to keep novel coronavirus infections from spreading. Abe promised to send one mask to each ...

The prime minister of Japan knows he has big shoes to fill as he prepares to meet President Donald Trump, whose ...

On July 8, 2022, in Nara, Japan, Shinzo Abe was shot twice with a homemade shotgun by Tetsuya Yamagami. Despite Abe’s towering status in Japanese politics — a former prime minister, and Japan’s ...

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 ...

The prime minister of Japan knows he has big shoes to fill as he prepares to meet President Donald Trump, whose well-documented friendship with the late Shinzo Abe defined trans-Pacific ...