Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi listens to a question during a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in Tokyo ...

The high-profile trial opened on the day of a summit meeting of two of Abe's former allies, incumbent Prime Minister Sanae ...

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, held a grudge against the controversial Unification Church, which he believed had close ties to Shinzo ...

The mother of the man standing trial for assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 apologized Thursday ...

The church’s influence on Tetsuya Yamagami's family has become a focal point of his trial, as a grudge he said he held ...

NARA—Defense lawyers for the man accused of murdering former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his mother’s fervent religious ...

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

Three years after the assassination of Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe shocked the world, the murder trial opened ...

The witness is a researcher at the Nara prefectural police department's forensic laboratory who analyzed the homemade guns.

If the recent disasters that beleaguered the Philippines happened in Japan, the prime minister would forthwith resign for failure of the government to protect and serve the people.