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 ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arbitrarily decided to honor slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a state funeral. The Sept. 27 event in Tokyo was conducted amid fierce controversy that ...

People pray at a flower stand near the venue of the prefectural-sponsored funeral for slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Shimonoseki, which was his ...

An estimated 4,000 people protested around the Diet building in Tokyo on Aug. 31, demanding the government scrap its plan to hold a state funeral for slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

A government report outlining the opinions of scholars and others over its handling of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state funeral in September confirmed what the public already knew ...

A bipartisan Diet council has recognized that the state funeral for assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bitterly divided public opinion. But council members failed to agree on other key ...

The government decided during a Cabinet meeting on Aug. 26 to allot 250 million yen ($1.8 million) to fund a state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The outlay will be made from the ...

International human rights groups denounced the Japanese government for inviting the Myanmar ambassador to Japan to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state funeral. The Myanmar Foreign Ministry ...

The state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took place on Sept. 27, attended by more than 4,000 people from Japan and abroad. At the venue, many people started arriving from the early ...

It is said his reason for basically making a snap decision to hold a state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was so he could hold on to the late prime minister’s conservative support ...

Fifty-five years after Yoshida’s state funeral at the Nippon Budokan Hall, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to be given his send-off at the same venue. The cost will top 1.6 billion yen ($11. ...

But the government decided against the state funeral because there was no legal ... funded state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sept. 27. Hirano’s account also seems to further ...