South Korea and China have warned Japan not to backtrack on an apology issued 20 years ago over its wartime past when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes a statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Japan’s ties with South ...
Tokyo knew for months that Islamic State militants were holding two Japanese men captive, but appeared ill-prepared when the group set a ransom deadline and purportedly killed one of them, according to officials involved in the crisis over the past week. The biggest foreign ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday slammed as “utterly despicable” a threat by the Islamic State group to kill a Japanese hostage within 24 hours unless Jordan releases a would-be suicide bomber on death row. “This was an utterly despicable act, and I am ...
The opposition camp presses Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over his decision to announce millions of dollars in nonmilitary aid to countries battling the Islamic State group at a time when Japanese citizens were known to be among its captives.
The Islamic State’s announcement last week of the kidnapping of two Japanese men has raised serious questions about how the crisis will affect Japan’s Middle East policy. But for China, the unfolding drama has raised concerns about its neighbor’s policies closer to home. News ...
Nomura Holdings Inc. says the probability that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policies will end badly is increasing. The worst-case scenario for Toshihiro Uomoto, the company’s chief credit strategist, to the end of 2017: the economy contracts in the first half of 2016, Abe ...
The Diet opens with expectations for the Abe administration to focus on security legislation in his quest to get the Japanese military more "proactively" involved overseas.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to blame for the death of a hostage at the hands of the Islamic State group, an editorial in Chinese state media said Monday. The Islamic State group said Sunday it had executed Haruna Yukawa, one of two Japanese ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday he wants to reflect his government’s position in a statement to be released in August on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, signaling that the wording of a 1995 statement — which offered apologies ...
The government’s handling of the ongoing Japanese hostage crisis was supported by 60.6 percent in a Kyodo News poll conducted Sunday. In the nationwide telephone survey, 31.2 percent opposed the government’s response to the crisis. The survey was conducted after an image was released ...
A 150-day regular Diet session convenes Monday as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe continues to grapple with a hostage crisis that will likely spur debate about Tokyo’s fight against terrorism. Since the apparent killing of one of two Japanese hostages being held by a group ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the static video purportedly showing a photo of Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa is probably authentic.
