WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, former U.S. presidents, members of Congress and other officials expressed shock and offered their condolences Friday after the assassination of former Japanese Prime ...

A TV monitor showing President Donald Trump and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzō Abe is seen next to another monitor showing the Japanese yen’s exchange rate against the U.S. dollar at a foreign exchange ...

Shinzō Abe was the most ambitious and successful agent of change in Japan’s foreign and security policy in a half-century. The former prime minister, who held office from 2006 to 2007 and then from ...

Earlier this month the prestigious Tokyo Medical University admitted to lowering the test scores of female applicants to bar them from being admitted into the university. This has systematically been ...

The assassination of Abe Shinzō has deprived Japan of its greatest postwar leader, and Asia of a visionary who was leading the construction of a viable framework for regional peace. For 40 years, the ...

Then Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during his first press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Shizuo Kambayashi / ASSOCIATED PRESS ...

On Sunday, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe triumphantly secured another four years of uncontested power, winning a landslide victory in Japan’s snap parliamentary elections. The LDP, together with its ...

Starting in early 2013, Japan’s Foreign policy turned resurgent with an eye on China. After years of dormant foreign policy, Japan under Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has moved with vigor to secure its ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announced April 29 that the Japanese government will present $1 million to the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian museums of Asian ...

HOUSTON, July 23, 2013 — Richard J. Samuels is a Ford International Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for International Studies, and Director of the MIT-Japan Program at ...