Several Japanese cabinet members visited the controversial Yasukuni shrine on the anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stayed away. The WSJ's Deborah Kan ...

A provocative move by Japanese prime Minister Shinzo Abe probably won't help. Abe visited Japan's highly controversial Yasukuni shrine (part of which is seen above) that "venerates the souls" of ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s wife came under fire on social media on Thursday over a report she visited a shrine last month with about 50 people, adding to public disapproval of how the premier ...

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who stepped down in September, visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 19, his second visit to the war-related shrine in a month. Abe’s visit came a day after ...

Two Cabinet ministers as well as former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe paid visits to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine to honor the war dead on Aug. 15, the 76th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World ...

It would be Suga's first such offering to the shrine since taking office last month. His predecessor, Shinzo Abe, had also regularly sent offerings via an aide on the anniversary of Japan's ...

The suspect in the slaying a year ago today of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe still gets loads of letters from well-wishers and people sympathetic to his plight, sources say. Tetsuya Yamagami ...

July 8 will mark two years since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed while delivering a speech at a campaign rally in Nara. His widow, Akie, 62, said it took about a year for her ...

NARA--Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest serving postwar prime minister, died on July 8 after being shot while giving a speech in Nara. His death was confirmed at 5:03 p.m. by the Nara Medical ...

NARA--Prosecutors here wrapped up their investigation into the man accused of murdering former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by bringing additional charges against the suspected assassin. Tetsuya ...

A psychiatric evaluation of Tetsuya Yamagami, the suspect in the slaying of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, started on July 25 to assess his mental condition to decide whether to indict him.