A court found the assailant guilty of attempted murder in the 2023 attack on Fumio Kishida, then prime minister. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo A court in western Japan ...

Japan's embattled Prime Minister Fumio Kishida surprised the country Wednesday by announcing that he'll step down when his party picks a new leader next month. His decision clears the way for his ...

TOKYO — A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison ...

Hideo Hiraoka has not forgotten the barbs and sneers directed his way over his cautious stance toward ordering death penalties ... Party of Japan. He was justice minister under the DPJ-led ...

The 25-year-old threw a homemade pipe bomb at former Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a campaign event in 2023. The incident was less than a year after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was ...

FILE - A suspect, center on the ground, is caught by police after he allegedly threw "the suspicious object," as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Saikazaki port for an election ...

Man Who Attacked Japan's Ex-Prime Minister Kishida Is Convicted and Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at ...