Japanese prime minister

Japan police chief to resign over Shinzo Abe shooting, citing 'fresh start'

Itaru Nakamura is the most senior official to step down in connection with Abe's assassination at a campaign rally in the western city of Nara on July 8.

 Police officers try to control the crowd of people in front of Zojoji temple where the funeral of the late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, will be held in Tokyo, Japan July 12, 2022.
 A police officer detains a man, believed to have shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in Nara, western Japan July 8, 2022

How did Shinzo Abe's killer make his DIY gun?

 PHUKET, THAILAND’S largest island, offers all the sand, sea and jungle one could want.

Japan protests Russian occupation of Kuril Islands

JAPAN’S FORMER prime minister Shinzo Abe visits the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam in 2014.

Shinzo Abe boosted Japan’s ties to Jews, Israel


Iran may change policy towards nuclear deal due to oil sanctions

Larijani did not elaborate on what those changes would be.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani listens during a news conference on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 26, 2018

Japan's Abe meets with Abbas in Ramallah

Japanese prime minister said his country was not planning to transfer its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Ramallah

Israeli PM will meet PA President in Tokyo only if US invited

Japan’s FM invites Netanyahu, Abbas to summit in Tokyo.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas with PM of Japan Shinzo Abe, Ramallah, January 20, 2015

Japan responds to Pyongyang's latest missile launch with a shrug

The projectile landed in this country's exclusive economic zone, within 200 nautical miles of its coast.

Pedestrians walk past a TV set showing news about North Korea's missile launch in Tokyo, Japan, August 29, 2017

Japan’s forbidden fruit

How Abe’s landslide victory and Japan’s security challenges open a new door for Israeli security tech

PM Netanyahu and PM of Japan Shinzo Abe‏

Trump in Japan: US and allies will 'never yield in defense of freedom'

US President Donald Trump lands in Japan, kicking off a 12-day Asian trip amid heightened tensions over North Korea's nuclear and missile tests.

US President Donald Trump (L) gestures with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe upon his arrival at the Kasumigaseki Country Club in Kawagoe, near Tokyo, Japan, 05 November 2017

Japanese PM, Trump agree on need to take stronger action on North Korea

"International society, including Russia and China, need to take this seriously and increase pressure," said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Kim Jong-un, North Korea leader

Grapevine: A man of many talents

After more than a decade of in-depth media involvement and telling Israel’s story on the international speaker’s circuit, Aryeh Green is stepping down.

Former chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks (R), congratulates the new chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, during a ceremony at St John's Wood Synagogue in London September 1, 2013.

In meeting with Japanese prime minister, Netanyahu warns that Iran could be next North Korea

"Iran and North Korea have aggressive military nuclear programs, and they are both developing nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, ballistic missiles," PM says.

PM Netanyahu and PM of Japan Shinzo Abe‏

Japan PM to resign in light of tsunami aftermath

Race wide open to replace Naoto Kan who is under fire for response to radiation crisis; Democratic Party of Japan to pick new leader.

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan 311