Tetsuya Yamagami was jailed for life for using a homemade gun to assassinate former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022.
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Sir Keir said he was looking forward to discussing defence and security with the country’s new PM, Sanae Takaichi.
Against this backdrop, Tokyo’s defence buildup is fitting squarely into Washington’s Cold War–era “hub-and-spokes” architecture in Asia, with Japan once again acting as the eastern “spoke” of a ...
BEIJING (AP) — They’re at it again. China and Japan — frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured, bloody history they still struggle to navigate — are freshly at each other’s ...
Japan’s general election has been called for 8 February 2026, just months after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took office in ...
With the United States undermining its commitment to providing stability in the region, Japan is better served by engaging ...
PMs Sanae Takaichi and Keir Starmer also said they’d work together in other areas, including cybersecurity, trade and defence.