Tag Archives: Shinzo Abe

Tokyo, Japan | Xinhua | Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died after being fatally shot on Friday by a gunman during a speech in the western city of Nara when campaigning for Sunday’s upper house election, local media reported. Abe, 67, fell to the ground and was seen bleeding after …

Tokyo, Japan | XINHUA |   The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s Cabinet dropped from last month when Suga took office after his predecessor Shinzo Abe stepped down for health reasons, a nationwide poll showed on Monday. According to the survey conducted by Japan’s public broadcaster NHK between …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga was elected on Monday as the new president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to take over from outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. At a joint plenary meeting of party members from both houses of the Diet and …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   Japan is considering to hold an extraordinary parliamentary session on Sept. 17 to pick the country’s new prime minister to succeed Shinzo Abe, local media reported on Sunday. According to public broadcaster NHK, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is expected to decide when and how …

Tokyo, Japan | XINHUA | Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday announced his resignation over health issues, catching the country by surprise and sending two major stock indexes tumbling in Tokyo. Japan’s economy is already in deep recession amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the sudden resignation of the prime …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announcing Friday he would step down from his post due to the recurrence of the same intestinal disease that ended his first tenure has caught public and political circles somewhat off-guard while posing a number of uncertainties ahead for the …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe checked into a hospital in Tokyo on Monday for what one of his aide’s described as a “health checkup” although rumors have been swirling about Abe’s ill health. Kyodo News reported that Abe’s visit to Keio University Hospital in the …

Tokyo, Japan | AFP |  The stunt reflected his commitment to an event that was supposed to be the crowning glory of his tenure. But analysts say the historic delay of the Games over the coronavirus may not be all bad news for Abe. If the country’s longest-serving premier can see …

Seoul, South Korea | AFP | Seoul threatened to retaliate Friday over what it called Tokyo’s “irrational” plan to quarantine arrivals from South Korea over the coronavirus outbreak, turning the scientific issue into a diplomatic row. The two countries have close economic ties and are both major US allies, democracies and …

Why Trump and XI policies in the South China Sea could lead Japan to rearm ANALYSIS | Andrew M. Mwenda | As Uganda and Rwanda were preparing themselves for a possible military confrontation, I was in Japan talking to public officials, intellectuals and academics on the situation in the Sea …