Japan’s former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who was known for his 1995 “Murayama statement” apologizing to Asian victims of his country’s aggression, died Friday. He was 101. Murayama died at a ...

"There is no doubt that I have done all this," Tetsuya Yamagami said in court, admitting to the murder of the country's ...

The trial of the accused killer of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is underway. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, appeared in court as U ...

Shinzo Abe's alleged assassin, Tetsuya Yamagami, pleads guilty as President Donald Trump meets Japan's new prime minister, ...

Sanae Takaichi has pledged to make the country ‘strong and prosperous’ again; success hinges on breaking barriers for women ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is stepping down as leader after only a year in the role. It has left his party looking ...

The man accused of killing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 pleaded guilty to the assassination on Tuesday.

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

President Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Japan on Tuesday shortly after she became the ...

Renowned Japan expert Sheila Smith discusses the country’s historic election of its first female prime minister, her politics ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new ...

Months before she became Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi said she’d been invited to meet US President Donald Trump.