September 27, 2022 11:54 am
TOKYO, Sept 27: With flowers, prayers and a 19-gun salute, Japan honoured slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday at the first state funeral for a former premier in 55 years - a ceremony that has become as divisive as he was in life.
July 9, 2022 07:10 am
TOKYO, July 9: Campaigning in Japan was due to resume on Saturday in the final day of electioneering before polling for the upper house of parliament, even as the country reeled from the killing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by a gunman in an unusual act of political violence.
July 8, 2022 19:32 pm
KATHMANDU, July 8: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has sent a message of condolences to the Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida on the passing away of Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan. The Prime Minister strongly condemned the heinous attack.
July 8, 2022 15:12 pm
KATHMANDU, July 8: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died in a hospital while receiving medical treatment, BBC reported quoting Japan's national broadcaster.
July 8, 2022 14:09 pm
NARA, Japan, July 8: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving leader, was in grave condition on Friday after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, with media saying a man opened fire with an apparently homemade gun.
July 8, 2022 10:11 am
TOKYO, July 8: Japanese former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday while campaigning in the city of Nara, a government spokesman said, with public broadcaster NHK saying he appeared to have been shot from behind by a man with a shotgun.
August 29, 2020 14:28 pm
TOKYO, Aug 29: The abrupt resignation of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on Friday triggered an election in his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to replace him as its president, followed by a vote in parliament to elect a new prime minister.
August 28, 2020 14:18 pm
TOKYO, Aug 28: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving premier, said on Friday he was resigning because of poor health, ending a stint at the helm of the world’s third-biggest economy during which he sought to revive growth and bolster its defences.
April 6, 2020 10:20 am
TOKYO, April 6: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will declare a state of emergency as early as Tuesday in a bid to stop the coronavirus spreading across the country, the Yomiuri newspaper reported, as the cumulative number of infections topped 1,000 in Tokyo alone.
November 21, 2019 09:01 am
Shinzo Abe surpasses Katsura Tarō as the longest-serving prime minister in the history of Japan’s constitutional government. But he reaches the milestone with a setback.
November 4, 2019 10:14 am
SEOUL, Nov 4: South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in on Monday suggested high-level talks to resolve a deepening political and trade row with Japan during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Moon’s spokeswoman said in a statement.
August 25, 2019 16:11 pm
BIARRITZ, Aug 25: U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe displayed their differences over the seriousness of North Korea’s series of short-range missile launches on Sunday, while maintaining that they would remain in synch on the issue.
August 23, 2019 14:50 pm
TOKYO, Aug 23: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday Japan still expects South Korea to keep its promises on the contentious issue of wartime forced labor and to work to rebuild trust.
February 17, 2019 11:58 am
TOKYO, Feb 17: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last autumn after receiving a request from the U.S. government to do so, the Asahi newspaper reported on Sunday.
October 12, 2018 19:38 pm
BEIJING, Oct 12: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be paying a three-day official visit to China within the next few weeks in the latest sign of thawing relations between the two regional rivals.