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    • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      Japan’s reckoning with religious threats, real and imagined

      Abe’s murder has led to a crackdown on the Unification Church — and on parents frightening children with hellfire

    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      Protesters march on Japan’s parliament to criticise Abe state funeral

      World leaders gather to bid farewell to divisive leader who introduced Abenomics

    • Sunday, 25 September, 2022
      News in-depthJapanese politics & policy
      Kishida's popularity hit by decision to hold state funeral for Abe

      Japanese public rail against $11mn cost of prime minister’s undebated announcement of event to mourn former leader

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Special ReportAfrican Development
      Abe’s legacy in Africa under scrutiny at development summit

      Whereas once it sought UN votes, Tokyo now has much more urgent needs given the hunt for rare metals and other commodities

    • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
      Japanese politics & policy
      Japan’s prime minister reshuffles cabinet as approval ratings fall

      Fumio Kishida’s move seen as attempt to shift his government from under Shinzo Abe’s shadow

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      The Big Read
      How Abe’s killing exposes Japan’s thin line between church and state

      The ruling LDP party’s links to the Unification Church, or ‘Moonies’, are in the spotlight after the alleged assassin cited the connection as a motive

    • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
      News in-depthChinese politics & policy
      Callous messages following Abe’s death highlight anti-Japanese sentiment in China

      Longstanding historical, political and cultural fissures complicate relations in Asia

    • Saturday, 16 July, 2022
      Leo Lewis
      Abe’s assassination has shone a light on Japan’s faith industry

      Despite appearances, religion remains a powerful background presence in the country

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      News in-depthUnification Church
      Church or cult? Inside the Moonies’ ‘world of delusion’

      Shinzo Abe’s assassination has drawn scrutiny of the work of the controversial Unification Church

    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      News in-depth
      Shinzo Abe’s death gives Fumio Kishida a chance to make his mark

      Assassination of former Japanese prime minister creates a political void the incumbent could fill

    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      What we know about the Abe murder

      Nearly a dozen candidates have emerged to replace UK prime minister Boris Johnson

    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      Killing of Shinzo Abe shines spotlight on politicians’ links with Moonies

      South Korea’s Unification Church says it is baffled by reports suspect was motivated by anger at the group

    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      Japanese politics & policy
      Japan’s ruling LDP wins landslide victory after Abe assassination

      Voters hand Tokyo a historic opportunity to revise pacifist constitution

    • Sunday, 10 July, 2022
      Leo Lewis
      What Shinzo Abe’s assassination means for ‘Pax Japonica’

      The notion that political stability rests on disinterest of the Japanese electorate is a dangerous one

    • Saturday, 9 July, 2022
      Japan
      Japan mourns Shinzo Abe as police investigate fatal shooting

      Crowds gather to pay respects to former prime minister at a memorial site close to where he was attacked

    • Saturday, 9 July, 2022
      World leaders stunned by fatal shooting of Shinzo Abe

      US condemns ‘profoundly disturbing’ killing of Japan’s former prime minister

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Shinzo Abe restored Japan’s place on the world stage

      Long-serving premier leaves an outsized legacy in economics and diplomacy

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Obituary
      Shinzo Abe, influential Japanese prime minister, 1954-2022

      A blue-blooded political showman who sought to revive Japan and revise its pacifist constitution

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe shot and killed

      Country’s longest-serving premier attacked while making election campaign speech

    • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
      Japanese politics & policy
      Japan’s former PM warns China invading Taiwan would be an ‘emergency’ for Tokyo

      Shinzo Abe hints invasion could meet the conditions for Japan to use military force

    • Monday, 4 October, 2021
      Japanese politics & policy
      Japan’s new PM creates post to address China threat

      Fumio Kishida appoints three women to his cabinet of 20, one more than previously

    • Friday, 17 September, 2021
      Japanese politics & policy
      Japan’s ruling party race: the four candidates to replace Suga

      The LDP will have to appeal to an increasingly frustrated public ahead of national polls

    • Friday, 4 June, 2021
      Covid-19 vaccines
      Japan delivers 1.2m vaccine jabs to Taiwan in face of Chinese criticism

      Beijing condemns Tokyo for reducing inoculation assistance to a ‘tool of political self-interest’

    • Sunday, 14 February, 2021
      Leo Lewis
      There’s a bad smell to Japan’s corporate governance reform

      Sharp local proverb captures sense of tokenism and old mores resisting change

    • Sunday, 18 October, 2020
      Gavyn Davies
      Japan’s Suga inherits an economy stabilised by Abenomics

      The country is no longer such an obvious outlier among its peers

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