TOKYO: The Unification Church has come under intense scrutiny in Japan since a former prime minister was assassinated, but it ...

If confirmed, the sect nicknamed the ‘Moonies’ may become the third religious group ordered to disband in Japan.

Makoto Watanabe quit a major newspaper after it retracted a scoop. Now he runs an investigative nonprofit that does not shy away from challenging authority.

An Emirati diplomat earlier identified by Tehran as carrying a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump seeking to jump-start ...

Here’s what to know about the tension between countries, Iran’s nuclear program and a letter Donald Trump wrote to Iran’s ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei asserts that talks with the US will not alleviate sanctions and views them as coercive tactics ...

The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life hosted Mick Mulvaney, former chief of staff under President Donald Trump’s first ...

George Glass, Washington's nominee for ambassador to Japan, says the cost of deterring China has become 'significantly more ...

Tetsuya Yamagami indicated he planned to kill former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in ... Instead, he waited for Abe’s appearance in Nara the following day, the sources said. Police believe the ...

He also said he will apologize to Abe’s bereaved family after Yamaguchi Prefecture hosts an Oct. 15 funeral for Abe. Some of Abe’s allies in the LDP wanted a harsher penalty.

A year after a gunman ended his life, Shinzo Abe casts a long shadow over ... who was my mentor (in politics),” a lawmaker of the Abe faction said after the meeting. Although Abe was cautious ...

This involved fending off resistance within his own party and paying his respects to former Prime Minister Shinzo ... Kishida said. After Kishida settled on his decision, he called Abe’s ...