SEOUL, Jan 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for policy Elbridge Colby will ​visit South Korea from Sunday to ...

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, earlier admitted to killing Abe in July 2022 as the former prime minister was giving a campaign speech ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life ...

By Tim Kelly, Satoshi Sugiyama and John Geddie TOKYO, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will call a ...

Parliament will be dissolved on January 23rd and the election will be held on February 8th. That makes it the shortest ...

Japan regularly intercepts Russian forces near its territorial waters and airspace.

Japanese Defense Minister Koizumi Shinjiro and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth met in Washington on January 15 to ...

Japanese Minister of Defense Shinjirō Koizumi signs the Pentagon guest book prior to a bilateral meeting with Secretary of ...

Japan scrambled fighter jets to respond to Russian bombers, fighters and a surveillance plane at least four times this week ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has dissolved the lower house of Parliament, paving the way for a Feb. 8 snap election ...

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By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Fred Mery NARA, Japan, Jan 21 (Reuters) - A man accused of fatally shooting former Japanese Prime ...