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Shinzo Abe

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3 days ago

The director and ex-Japanese Red Army militant discusses his new film Escape, about the anarchist fugitive Satoshi Kirishima, the frustrations of radical film-making and progressive politics

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19 days ago

Takaichi is estimated to have secured a two-thirds majority in Japan's lower house, the best result for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since elections in 2017 under former Prime Minister Shinzo A…

37 days ago

The man who killed Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 has been sentenced to life in prison.
Abe was serving as a regular lawmaker after leaving the prime minister's job when he was killed in 2022 while campaigning in the western city of Nara.
A court heard that Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, had been 'determined' to shoot Abe when he used a handmade gun to kill Japan's longest-serving leader during a campaign speech in July 2022.

Abe was killed in 2022 while campaigning in the western city of Nara

A Japanese court has sentenced a man who admitted assassinating the former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment …

38 days ago

The 45-year-old is set to be sentenced on Wednesday, but the question of what punishment he deserves has divided public opinion in Japan.

85 days ago

Tetsuya Yamagami said during his trial that he felt '"deeply sorry" towards Abe's widow Akie.

4 months ago

Tetsuya Yamagami (pictured), 45, allegedly gunned down Japan's longest serving prime minister as Mr Abe was giving a speech in the Japanese city of Nara in July 2022.

Sanae Takaichi leads a minority government and needs a successful meeting with the US president on Tuesday. Thankfully her mentor, Shinzo Abe, is one of Trump’s ‘favourites’

Japan’s new prime minister…

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