The Japan Prime Minister's residence has long been associated with ghost stories ... is reported to have told Shinzo Abe that he had met ghosts at the residence. Government officials have ...

Junichiro Matsumoto, the chief accountant of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Abe faction during former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s time in office, testified on the LDP’s slush fund scandal ...

A court in Japan has ordered the disbandment of the controversial Unification Church, which came under scrutiny after the shock killing of former prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2022. The alleged ...

NAGATO, Yamaguchi Prefecture--Angered by an election poster, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s supporters threw their support behind the incumbent mayor here and led him to rout a candidate ...

The shock killing of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 brought the church under scrutiny. During his interrogation by the authorities, the alleged assassin confessed that he held a grieva ...

That changed in 2022, when former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated. The man accused of shooting Abe allegedly was motivated by the former prime minister’s links to the church and ...

Yoichi Funabashi, the former editor in chief of The Asahi Shimbun, recently published a massive two-volume work that examines Shinzo Abe’s second stint as prime minister in fine detail.