Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, had admitted to shooting Mr. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister; but his case divided Japan.

The man who killed Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a homemade gun was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, public broadcaster NHK reported.

By Heejin Kim SEOUL, Jan 9 (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will visit Japan on January 13 and 14 for a summit with Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Lee's office said on Friday.

Also part of the equation this week: China's visible pivot to another regional neighbor, South Korea, whose president spent ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to dissolve the House of Representatives for a snap election at the outset of ...

South Korea appears happy to engage in what some have called “shuttle diplomacy” between its quarreling neighbors—and stands ...

Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Japan On January 19, Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae declared in a press conference that she would dissolve the House of Representatives (Japan’s lower house) ...

Japanese LDP Officials Meet PM Kim, Stress Korea-Japan Cooperation Discuss Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy, Emphasize Reducing Bilateral Fluctuations ...

TOKYO -- Top executives at major convenience store chains in Japan have spoken out on the importance of foreign workers in ...

By moving early, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi intends to consolidate her leadership, gain popular endorsement for her fiscal and security policies, and strengthen her party’s legislative power. Yet t ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's announcement of an abrupt House of Representatives dissolution for a snap election reflects her hopes of consolidating political power to achieve her own ...

Analysts from both countries noted that the visit relied on temporarily shelving disputes rather than resolving them. Given ...