Japanese police have drastically boosted security for VIPs following the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo ...

Japan though it had a special relationship with the U.S. Now, Tokyo is finding that its security alliance counts for little ...

Tuesday marks three years since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead in western Japan while campaigning, with the ...

Suntory’s CEO slammed the prime minister for playing hardball on US tariffs ahead of July's election. But equal levies on ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba called it ‘a battle for our national interests’ as analysts warn of economic and security fallout.

Meanwhile, Ishiba plans to bring his own trump card — Sunao Takao, a senior Foreign Ministry official who previously served as Abe’s interpreter, whom Trump affectionately called “little ...

Since Abe’s death, their relationship has taken on a life of its own, regularly turning into memes on social media. Now, Ishiba is hoping to establish a similarly productive rapport with the ...

Mr. Ishiba has also tried to learn from one of his predecessors, Shinzo Abe, a long-serving prime minister who was shot and killed in 2022 after leaving office. Mr.

Ishiba wants to follow the example of Abe, the first foreign leader to meet with Trump after his 2016 election. Abe, who was assassinated in 2022, ...

Ishiba Moves to Marginalize Abe Camp; Ishiba Moves to Marginalize Abe Camp Politics Oct 23, 2024. Ishiba Shigeru took office as prime minister on October 1 and called a snap election eight days later.

It’s a tall order for Ishiba to replicate the president’s relationship with Abe, who resigned as prime minister in 2020 and was assassinated by a gunman as he delivered a campaign speech in 2022.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba hopes to meet U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the United States this month, four sources said, in an attempt to emulate then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ...