The Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara, where Shinzo Abe was shot. (Miho Inada/The Wall Street Journal) The man detained by police after shooting Shinzo Abe has told police he had no political grudge ...

One of Japan’s most influential and longest-serving prime ministers, Hirobumi Ito, was killed in 1909—after he had left office—at a train station in what is now northeast China. (Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg ...

The younger sister of Tetsuya Yamagami, the man on trial for the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, told the ...

TOKYO — A man accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to go on trial on Tuesday, three years after the assassination of Japan’s longest-serving premier stunned a nation ...

The shooter accused of murdering Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pleaded guilty to the charges as the trial began on Tuesday, according to local media. On July 8, 2022, Tetsuya ...

The mother of Tetsuya Yamagami, standing trial over the 2022 fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, apologized ...

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly set to have a private dinner on Sunday with Akie Abe at Mar-a-Lago, the widow of the former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in 2022.

I have had the unique privilege of working with scores of heads of state from around the world. Some adversarial. Some leading our closest allies. And some just plain crazy. Each of them responsible ...

A Chinese diplomat’s call to cut off the prime minister’s “filthy head” signaled a revival of a combative style Beijing had tried to dial back. By Andrew Higgins and Javier C. Hernández President ...

He was Japan’s first prime minister born after World War II. His grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, was Japan’s prime minister from 1957 to 1960. Abe’s great uncle, Eisuke Sato, was prime minister from 1964 ...