Since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's second term in office his cabinet has been plagued by funding scandals that have seen various ministers resign, with the latest this week involving his economics minister facing allegations he received bribes from a construction company.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought to gain more votes from lower income class for the upcoming upper house election by vowing to address wage gaps in his policy speech on Friday.
South Korea's foreign ministry on Tuesday refuted the comments by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who denied the "forced" recruitment of Korean women as sex slaves during World War II.
South Korea and Japan on Monday reached an agreement on Japan's wartime sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an official apology for the atrocities.
The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe green-lighting defense spending for the next fiscal year, which at around 42 billion U.S. dollars is the highest since record keeping began, is a testament to the hawkish leader's belligerent agenda in the months and years to come.
Mass protests across Japan showing the magnitude of public condemnation for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe forcing through parliament security bills that have reversed 70 years of pacifism have dominated press headlines here as the year draws to a close.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met here Friday with visiting Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull to boost bilateral cooperation, but divergence remained between them over Japan's controversial plan to restart its so-called scientific whaling.
South Korea and Japan will hold a director general-level meeting next week in Tokyo to discuss issues on Japan's sex enslavement of Korean women during World War II, Seoul's foreign ministry said Friday.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Monday to make efforts to speed up negotiations and reach rapid agreements on the China-South Korea-Japan free trade agreement (FTA) and the regional comprehensive economic partnership (RCEP), Park's office said.
South Korea's foreign ministry on Sunday denounced Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his making a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni shrine, a site widely seen as a symbol of Japan's militarist past.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday morning as it kicked off a four-day annual autumn festival.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffled his Cabinet on Oct. 7, but retained most key members.
A conciliatory letter from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo to South Korean President Park Geun-hye was delivered on Thursday as the two leaders had yet to sit down face-to-face for a bilateral summit.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to reshuffle his cabinet and top executives of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Wednesday, while key government ministers and the top five LDP executives are likely to retain their posts.
A special committee under the upper house of the Japanese national Diet passed controversial government-backed security-related bills amid chaos in the chamber.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was re-elected as the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) chief without a vote as nobody filed candidacy for the presidential election set for Sept. 20, local media reported Tuesday.
Mass protests across Japan this weekend have delivered a clear and direct message to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that his plans to normalize Japan's military by way of unconstitutional legislation rammed through parliament are thoroughly and vehemently rejected by the public here, including growing numbers of youngsters, with political experts stating that the current trajectory of the prime minister and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, could lead to its eventual downfall.
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