Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe News

Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, has also said he had a grudge against a "specific organisation" Meanwhile, police have conducted raids at his apartment in Nara on Friday and recovered explosives and homemade guns

After the murder of Shinzo Abe, the whole world wants to know for what reason he was murdered. To know this, it is important to understand that Shinzo Abe was one of the big leaders not only in Japan but in the whole world. But what does this have to do with his death? Watch this report.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in the chest by an assailant. This deadly attack took place on Shinzo in the Japanese city of Nara, where he was giving a speech at an event. The police have arrested the suspected attacker from the spot.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in the chest by an assailant. This deadly attack took place on Shinzo in the Japanese city of Nara, where he was giving a speech at an event. The police have arrested the suspected attacker from the spot.

The United States is in the middle of an expensive trade war with China in protest against Beijing`s treatment of U.S. companies, and tensions with Japan and the European Union over trade are simmering

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking in Vladivostok after meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping, said on Wednesday they had agreed to work towards an October visit by him to China, the latest sign of warming ties between the Asian rivals.

He promised concrete action to respond to what he called "escalating provocations" by North Korea.

Taro Kono, 54, is the son of former chief cabinet secretary Yohei Kono, who wrote a landmark 1993 apology to "comfort women" who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels.  

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also re-appointed Hiroshige Seko as trade minister, but named Taro Kono to the foreign ministry post and former defence minister Itsunori Onodera to the defence portfolio.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday was set to announce new defence and foreign ministers as part of a cabinet revamp he hopes will stem a decline in public support after a series of scandals and missteps.

India and Japan had begun a dialogue on Africa in 2010, a continent in which both have much stake. The main objective of the AAGC is to enhance growth and connectivity between Asia and Africa.

At a joint press conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi here, Abe said the designing of the project will begin by the end of this year.

Voters have also expressed misgivings about his cherished dream of making changes to the country's constitution, imposed by the US after Japan's defeat in World War II and which prohibits it from waging war.

Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito would take between 67 to 76 of the 121 seats - half the chamber - available in the election, up from 59 previously, NHK said.

G7 ministers warned Saturday against members manipulating their currencies, coming down against host Japan whose plans to tame the resurgent yen ignited a policy split in the club of rich nations.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to sign a deal with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo on the country’s first bullet train, with Tokyo financing the bulk of the high-speed rail project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad through a Rs 98,000 crore loan.

 South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe started their first-ever summit meeting in Seoul on Monday after an extended diplomatic freeze.