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.

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 ...

TOKYO -- Japan's House of Representatives was formally dissolved on Friday at the outset of the ordinary parliamentary ...

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 ...

Japan’s foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi will arrive in India on Thursday for a strategic dialogue with external affairs minister S Jaishankar ...

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

NARA—The summit between Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung here on Jan. 13 signaled ...

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 ...

Abe was assassinated in July 2022 in broad daylight while delivering a campaign speech in Nara, on the eve of the Upper House parliamentary elections. It was one of the most anticipated verdicts in ...