WASHINGTON — Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, was assassinated by a gunman Friday in broad daylight while campaigning in a stunning attack that shook the world.

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Police have said Yamagami told them he killed Abe, one of Japan's most influential and divisive politicians, because of Abe's apparent links to a religious group that he hated. In his statements ...

July 8, 2022 WASHINGTON — In his record-breaking run as prime minister, Shinzo Abe never achieved his goal of revising Japan’s Constitution to transform his country into what the Japanese call ...

The hawkish Abe was one of the nation’s most divisive postwar leaders, but it is the ruling party’s cozy ties with the ultra-conservative Unification Church that has fired up much of the ...

TOKYO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Two months after he was assassinated, Shinzo Abe is still stirring controversy, evidence of how the polarising former premier's legacy is shaping Japanese politics on ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The assassination of Shinzo Abe, Japan’s totemic former leader, sent shock waves through the country and across the world on Friday. A divisive but dominant figure ...

When Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, stepped down in 2020, he hadn’t quite achieved what he’d set out to. He resigned due to poor health with dire approval ratings over ...

PM Kishida denounces attack on "foundation of democracy" Police arrest suspect at the scene of attack Police say attacker used homemade gun Political violence rare, guns tightly controlled in ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination Friday is particularly shocking because it happened in a country with among the world’s most stringent gun controls and lowest deaths ...