Japan PM Abe's Search for Russia Peace Pact: Best Chance, Last Chance?

Tokyo. As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters a seventh year in ... chasing the holy grail of Japanese diplomacy: a breakthrough in ... to China and attract more Japanese investment and technology, some ... caught Abe off guard when, on stage with the Japanese leader ...

Abe Becomes First Japanese PM to Visit Darwin in Australia Since WWII Bombing

Sydney. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday became Japan's ... partners." Two months after the Japanese attack on the US naval ... Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japanese air forces began bombing the ... . There were a further 62 Japanese raids up to November 1943 ...

Japan PM Abe Says Visit to China Being Arranged for Next Month

Vladivostok, Russia. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking in Vladivostok ... briefing. Xi told Abe that Sino-Japanese ties "face an ... the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Japanese and Chinese officials have ... resolve the matter of Japanese citizens kidnapped by ...

Japan PM to Raise North Korean Abductions in Trump Summit

Tokyo. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday (30/03) ... the North Korean abduction of Japanese citizens in a meeting ... leaves Japan vulnerable. Japanese officials including Abe have left open the ... North Korea," a former Japanese diplomat said on condition of ...

Japan's Abe Sets Sights on More Foreign Workers, Higher Sales Tax

Tokyo. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday (20/02) ordered ... country's chronic labor shortages. Abe also asked cabinet ministers to ... foreign workers by the summer," Abe said at a meeting of ...

Trump Will Host Australian PM Turnbull at White House on Feb. 23

... Manila. The meeting included Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and the three leaders ...

Japan's PM Says N.Korea Still Developing Missiles Despite Launch Pause

Tokyo. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday (14/11) said ... up its nuclear weapon ambitions. Abe, in a meeting Chinese ... including cooperation on North Korea. Abe on Tuesday said that he ... economic ties with China. The Japanese leader, who also called for ...

Japan PM Abe Says Welcomes Broad Agreement on TPP Trade Deal

Danang, Vietnam. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday (10/11) welcomed ... by the United States. Abe told Peru's President Pedro ... a written statement by the Japanese government said on Friday. The ... Japanese leader told Kuczynski that ...

Abe to Push Reform of Japan's Pacifist Constitution After Election Win

Tokyo. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc scored a ... revise the pacifist constitution. Abe's Liberal Democratic Party-led ... win raises the likelihood that Abe, who took office in ... of armed forces. But Japanese governments have interpreted it to ...

Tokyo Governor Says Wouldn't Visit Yasukuni Shrine if She Became PM

... as a possible first female Japanese premier, reiterated, however, ... about that." Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called the lower house election ... policies echo those of Abe's equally conservative Liberal ... Democratic Party (LDP). Abe, who took office nearly ...