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

Japan's central bank held short-term rates at 0.75%, maintaining the highest levels since 1995 and signaling a shift in ...

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.

The meeting and venue were the same, but the style and tone of the two most anticipated keynote speeches at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos could not have been more different. On ...

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 ...

Japan's first female leader is popular with voters. She has now called for early elections to leverage their approval. The ...

The decision to dissolve the lower house was taken on Friday.

VCG. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday (local time) said in a media interview that China's rare earth supply to ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's decision to dissolve the House of Representatives on Friday and call a snap general ...

The snap vote is also expected to centre on economic pressures, with rising prices emerging as the biggest concern for ...

With debt running at 200% of GDP, unfunded tax cuts could be a problem. Still, the PM is very popular, and Japan is a ...