Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and junior ally Komeito secured a solid majority in the House of Councillors — Japan’s Upper House of the National Diet — at the ...

Incumbent Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ratings declined after a pension report released in June by a government agency warned that many retirees in Japan will not be able to live on pensions alone.

Shinzo Abe became Japan’s longest serving prime minister on 20 November 2019. Staying atop a parliamentary democracy seems a herculean task these days, but it is especially hard in Japan where prime ...

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s great affection for Takashi Yamazaki’s “The Eternal Zero,” a 2014 box-office hit about a kamikaze pilot, is well known. The movie engendered endless debate ...

Nov. 20 (UPI) --Shinzo Abe became the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history on Wednesday, but his record-breaking tenure is being overshadowed by a new political scandal. Abe, 65, who ...

Xi Jinping will be visiting Japan for the first visit since becoming China's president, when he heads to Osaka this weekend to attend the Group of 20 summit. While Xi got off to a strained start with ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought to play a part in easing tensions between Iran and the United States when he traveled to Tehran for meetings with the country’s leaders this week. In an ...

The recent resignation of Japan’s prime minister had an odd side effect: The raft of media coverage apparently triggered a pet peeve of Defense Minister Kono Taro. Why? Because many media outlets – ...