Securing an interview with Nobuchiyo Kishi,the last scion of one of the world’s most powerful political families,took more than a year. Can he keep the dynasty alive?
The man accused of assassinating Shinzo Abe was allegedly motivated by the former prime minister’s links to the church that he blamed for bankrupting his family.
A child of Hiroshima,Fumio Kishida is using some of his domestic political capital to expand Japan’s mark on the world.
The SBS journalist heads to her ancestral homeland to investigate the links between “the Moonies” and the assassination of a former Japanese prime minister.
After three months of protest and bitter debate,Japan has finally farewelled its longest-serving prime minister.
Anthony Albanese will fly into a storm of protest in Tokyo surrounding the funeral of Shinzo Abe as other world leaders pull out of the memorial.
Empathy for the assassin who killed Japan’s longest-serving prime minister has matched sympathy for the victim.
North Asia correspondent Eryk Bagshaw reports from Nara near Kyoto in Japan,at the location where Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in July.
Four Australian prime ministers will land in Japan on Monday,and the mood in Tokyo could not be more different from the scenes of ceremony across London.
Shinzo Abe was assassinated on July 8 and his state funeral is set for September 27,with some 6000 people from Japan and overseas set to take part.
The 71-year-old’s latest campaign depicts him in the middle of the last supper and now he will be at the centre of a gathering of former conservative leaders.