TOKYO, Jan 13 — Japanese prosecutors on Friday indicted the man suspected of killing former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to local media.

ISTANBUL, Sept 27 — Japan on Tuesday held a state funeral to honour its former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who was assassinated in July during an election campaign, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

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.

TOKYO, July 12 — Japan on Tuesday prepared to bid farewell to Shinzo Abe, a polarising figure who dominated Japanese politics for decades as the country's longest-serving premier, before being gunned down at a campaign rally last week.

NARA, July 10 — The man arrested for Shinzo Abe's killing believed the former Japanese leader was linked to a religious group he blamed for his mother's financial ruin and spent months planning the attack with a homemade gun, police told local media on Saturday.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Japanese Ambassador to Malaysia Katsuhiko Takahashi thanked Malaysians for their messages of condolence over the demise of Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot by a gunman, yesterday.

NARA (Japan), July 9 — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving leader of modern Japan, was gunned down on Friday while campaigning for a parliamentary election, shocking a country where guns are tightly controlled and political violence almost unthinkable.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 — Japanese ambassador to Malaysia, Katsuhiko Takahashi has expressed his deepest condolences over the news of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's death after being shot on Friday.

By Nasuha Badrul Huzaini SHAH ALAM, July 8 — Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari has extended his condolences over the passing of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe who was shot twice while delivering a speech in the western city of Nara. “My sincerest condolences to the Abe...

TOKYO, July 8 — Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died, public broadcaster NHK said on Friday.

TOKYO, July 8 — Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe collapsed and showed no sign of life after being shot twice on Friday when he was delivering a speech in the western city of Nara, local media reported.

TOKYO, July 8 — Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been taken to hospital bleeding after collapsing while delivering a speech in the western city of Nara, public broadcaster NHK reported on Friday.

TOKYO, Dec 22 — Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been questioned by prosecutors over allegations that his political group illegally covered part of the cost of dinner receptions for supporters, sources close to the matter said Tuesday.

TOKYO, Sept 2 — Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Wednesday decided to hold a presidential election on Sept 14 to pick Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's successor, local media reported.

TOKYO, Aug 28 — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to resign, public broadcaster NHK said on Friday, adding that the long-serving leader wanted to avoid causing problems for the government due to the worsening of a chronic health condition.

TOKYO, April 7 — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday declared a month-long state of emergency for Tokyo, Osaka and five other prefectures in an effort to curb the Covid-19 outbreak, Xinhua news agency reported.