Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Monday agreed to cooperate in nuclear and economic fields.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is set for a rule change that may allow Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to remain in office until after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
An aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who also serves as an upper house member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party visited the notorious Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Wednesday.
A group of 85 Japanese lawmakers visited a controversial war shrine on Tuesday (Oct 18), in an annual pilgrimage that has angered China and South Korea, who see it as a painful reminder of Tokyo's warring past.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering Monday to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during the war-linked shrine's annual autumn festival, regardless of the feelings of the peoples of Japan's Asian neighbors.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did not rule out the possibility of dissolving the lower house of Japan's parliament and calling a snap election as early as next January.
Japan's main opposition Democratic Party leader Renho on Wednesday blasted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his failed economic policies, in the first head-to-head match up of the two leaders since Renho was elected to lead her party on Sept. 15.
Opposition parties in Japan who recently agreed to cooperate to hold the ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led bloc more accountable in parliament, took aim at Prime Minster Shinzo Abe's plans to amend Japan's pacifist Constitution on Tuesday.
Japan's National Diet kicked off a 66-day extraordinary session on Monday, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies, as well as whether to swiftly ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact and to change the pacifist Constitution, under the spotlight.
The threat posed by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) after its multiple missile and nuclear tests this year is "substantially more serious" than it was in the past and demands an "entirely distinct" response, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan's aging, shrinking population was not a burden, but an incentive to boost productivity through innovations like robots, wireless sensors and Artificial Intelligence.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told senior military officials on Monday that he absolutely cannot tolerate DPRK having conducted two nuclear tests since the start of the year.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday that strong pressure from the international community was the only way to halt DPRK's rocket and nuclear tests and that economic sanctions needed to be implemented "strictly".
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has spared no effort in his diplomatic maneuver to make a use of major international meetings to serve his own political priorities and agendas.
Japan's Defense Minister Tomomi Inada on Wednesday said the nation's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) will begin training for new operations under recently changed security laws which have relaxed the forces' operational scope and use of weapons.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering visiting Cuba next month to strengthen ties and promote Japanese investments there, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday, but the foreign ministry said no such plan was being made.
Seventy-one years following Japan's surrender in World War II, the specter of militarism is still haunting the country and the Asia-Pacific.
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