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Slain former prime minister was hailed by Washington's top diplomat as 'a man with a vision'. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)

Researchers in Japan have unveiled plans for “artificial gravity living facilities” on the Moon. The moon base concept, which was developed through a collaboration with Kyoto University and the ... ( read original story ...)

Days after his assassination, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party vowed to use its sizable victory in a parliamentary election to achieve his unfinished goals, including strengthening ... ( read original story ...)

With flags at half-mast, Japan mourned the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, with his body taken to Zojoji Temple in Tokyo for a wake, ahead of a funeral on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 6,231 new cases of the coronavirus on Monday, more than twice as many as a week ago. ( read original story ...)

A wake for former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo was held at a temple in Tokyo Monday evening. Abe was fatally shot while delivering a campaign speech in the city of Nara in western Japan on Friday. His ... ( read original story ...)

Yokozuna Terunofuji outlasted No. 1 maegashira Kiribayama for his first win of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday, when demo ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo confirmed 6,231 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, more than double the number a week before, with the daily tally marking a week-on-week increase for the 24th straight day. The seven-day average ... ( read original story ...)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a visit to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivered condolences Monday over the death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was fatally shot Friday on ... ( read original story ...)

Conservative LDP and its coalition partner won 76 out of 125 seats up for grabs in the upper house of parliament ... ( read original story ...)

The Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner won a majority in an election imbued with meaning after Abe was assassinated while campaigning. ( read original story ...)

Police in Nagoya have arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of corpse abandonment after he left the body of a woman on the rooftop of a multi-tenant building where he lives last week. According to ... ( read original story ...)

A woman was found dead in a Tokyo hotel room early on the morning of July 11 after a man turned himself in at a police box in the Japanese ca ... ( read original story ...)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Monday (July 11) on a previously unscheduled stop to Tokyo to offer condolences in person over the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe. ( read original story ...)

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed condolences during a visit Monday to Tokyo following “I shared with our Japanese colleagues the sense of loss, the sense of shock that we all feel, the ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday received US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who traveled to Tokyo to personally convey his condolences for the assassination of former leader Shinzo ... ( read original story ...)