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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

NARA--The cause of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s death was loss of blood, Nara prefectural police announced July 9 after performing an autopsy. In a related development, Abe’s body was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abe Shinzo has twice served as Japan's prime minister, and his family's political history stretches back decades. His grandfather, Kishi Nobusuke, served as prime minister between 1957 and 1960.

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 ...

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 ...