Abe had a strategic vision for Japan, recognizing that it could no longer sit quietly, writing the occasional check, while events unfolded around it.
From when I first started covering Abe some 24 years ago until the day of his death, I never saw Abe waver once in his political...
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced that the Upper House elections will push through on July 10: “We need to protect with all our might the base...
A gunman at an election rally in Nara ended the life of the longest-serving and one of the most popular prime ministers in Japanese history.
Messages of shock and grief are coming in from heads of government, remembering the former prime minister of Japan as a “towering global statesman.”
While not disclosing very much new information, Kishida expressed his sincere wishes for Abe’s recovery and called the incident “despicable.”
Shinzo Abe was delivering a speech ahead of the Upper House elections on July 10 when he was shot twice from behind and collapsed on the...
A fight to defend Taiwan will be far more deadly than Ukraine. So what if Japan takes the lead by ending its own strategic ambiguity first?
“Being able to exercise the right of collective self-defense means nothing more than avoiding getting dragged into a war,” he said at a recent symposium.
“The US policy of ambiguity toward Taiwan is now fostering instability in the Indo-Pacific region,” former PM Shinzo Abe wrote.
To make the aggressor hesitate to attack, "we need to possess striking power to attack an enemy at its military bases," and "to share the US...
Japan is “committed to the three non-nuclear principles,” says the former prime minister. “However, we must not make it a taboo to discuss the reality of...