Tuesday, Sep 27 10:00 (JST) What to expect from the state funeral Thousands are gathering in Tokyo to pay their respects to Japan's longest-serving leader, slain former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo ...

The state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will cost an estimated 1.66 billion yen ($11.9 million), including security expenses, in taxpayer money, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu ...

In a black kimono Shinzo Abe's widow Akie walked slowly ... in Japan's post-war history has a politician been given a state funeral - and Tuesday's event to honour Abe has stirred huge controversy.

Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty was one of many that attended Japan’s assassinated former leader, Shinzo Abe's, state funeral.

A rare state funeral for Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister who was assassinated in July, has split Japan. The hawkish Abe was one of the nation’s most divisive postwar leaders, but it is the ...

As former PM Abe Shinzo’s state funeral – Japan’s first in 55 years – inches closer, more and more Japanese are turning against the idea. Japan bid farewell to former Prime Minister Abe ...

Some opposition party leaders skipped the Sept. 27 state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and those who did attend raised questions about the decision-making process for the event.

The public was not “sharply divided” over the state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but the issue did highlight a deep problem for democracy in Japan, filmmaker Arata Oshima said.

Experts were divided on the plan to hold a state funeral this autumn for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which would be the first for a former prime minister in more than half a century. One ...

27 to ensure the safety of the children during the state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The ward’s education board issued a notice to all 19 public schools and kindergartens in ...

A top government spokesman said the cost of the state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came in at “around the level of 1.25 billion yen ($8.4 million),” 400 million yen less than ...