Tokyo — Bearing her husband's ashes in a brocaded box, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's widow entered Tokyo's Budokan arena to the sounds of a dirge and a 19-gun salute on Tuesday. Kept ...

TOKYO (AP) — The leadup to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's controversial state funeral could seem like a never-ending exchange of heated words — both for and against. But it was the images ...

TOKYO, Japan — A tense Japan prepared Tuesday for a rare and controversial state funeral for assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving leader in his nation's modern history ...

TOKYO -- Thousands of protesters opposed to the state-funded funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lined the streets near parliament in Tokyo on Tuesday, as helicopters whizzed above ...