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

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will go to the White House to try to rekindle Japan’s relationship with President Donald Trump — and to fend off potential tariffs.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will go to the White House to try to rekindle Japan’s relationship with President Donald Trump — and to fend off potential tariffs.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is meeting Trump with two simple priorities: reaffirming the two countries' existing alliance and establishing a "personal relationship of trust." ...

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

But unlike Abe, who led a stable administration as Japan's longest-serving prime minister, Ishiba heads a coalition that lost its parliamentary majority in an election late last month.

President Donald Trump said Friday he wants to slash the U.S. trade deficit with Japan as he welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to the White House for their first face-to-face meeting.

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.

Ishiba Shigeru took office as prime minister on October 1 and called a snap election eight days later. Ishiba’s first steps as head of the ruling party reveal his intent to part ways with the ...

GEOPOLITICS OF 2024 What Japan’s New Prime Minister Means for the US Shigeru Ishiba’s unexpected ascendance shakes up the Tokyo political scene — and relationship with Washington.