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Abe, abduction victim's kin

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) talks with Shigeru Yokota (L) and Sakie Yokota (R), during a gathering in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2013, for the return of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea. The Yokotas' daughter, Megumi, was taken to North Korea in 1977 at age 13 and has become a symbol of the abductions issue.

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Japan parliament approves bill to revise referendum law

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's House of Councillors approves a revision bill for the national referendum law by a majority vote on June 13, 2014. The bill is aimed at lowering the minimum voting age for national referendums four years after the revision takes effect, amid Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push for constitutional reform.

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Miura Award

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) meets Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura at Abe's office in Tokyo on June 6, 2013. Abe told Miura that Japan will establish a new honor called the "Miura Award" to recognize people who have accomplished their dreams and goals regardless of age. Miura became the oldest person to scale Mt. Everest at the age of 80 in May.

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Ex-Prime Minister Miyazawa dies at 87

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the home of former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Tokyo on June 28 after Miyazawa died at the age of 87 earlier in the day.

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Abe to raise abduction issue at talks with Bush this week

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) greets Shigeru and Sakie Yokota, the parents of Megumi, the iconic figure of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, at a meeting in Tokyo on April 22 of relatives of abduction victims from Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Romania. Abe told the participants in the meeting that he plans to raise the abduction issue when he meets with U.S. President George W. Bush during his trip to the United States this week. Megumi was abducted to North Korea in 1977 at age 13. Pyongyang says she died while North Korea, but Japan says the North has offered no concrete evidence of her death.

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Noel Paul Stookey performs 'Song for Megumi' at PM's official residence

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. folk singer Noel Paul Stookey performs ''Song for Megumi'' at the Prime Minister's Official Residence in Tokyo on Feb. 20 for an audience that includes (from C to R) Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Shigeru Yokota and his wife Sakie, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13. Stookey says he wrote the song to help raise people's awareness of the abduction issue.

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Miss International contestants pay courtesy call on Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) and Shinzo Age, acting secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, pose at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 4 for photos with some 60 contestants for the Miss International competition. The final contest of the competition will be held in Tokyo on Oct. 16.

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Japan's Abe in Pyongyang in 2002

File photo taken in September 2002 shows Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) shaking hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang, with Shinzo Abe (2nd from L), deputy chief Cabinet secretary of Japan, looking on. Abe, who later served as prime minister, was shot to death on July 8, 2022, at age 67, while making a stump speech in Nara, western Japan, for the House of Councillors election.

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Farewell to author and former Tokyo Gov. Ishihara

Photo taken on June 9, 2022, shows former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addressing a memorial gathering for author and former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, who died in February at the age of 89, in Tokyo.

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Noel Paul Stookey performs 'Song for Megumi' at PM's official re

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. folk singer Noel Paul Stookey performs ''Song for Megumi'' at the Prime Minister's Official Residence in Tokyo on Feb. 20 for an audience that includes (from C to R) Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Shigeru Yokota and his wife Sakie, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13. Stookey says he wrote the song to help raise people's awareness of the abduction issue. (Kyodo)

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Abe to raise abduction issue at talks with Bush this week

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) greets Shigeru and Sakie Yokota, the parents of Megumi, the iconic figure of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, at a meeting in Tokyo on April 22 of relatives of abduction victims from Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Romania. Abe told the participants in the meeting that he plans to raise the abduction issue when he meets with U.S. President George W. Bush during his trip to the United States this week. Megumi was abducted to North Korea in 1977 at age 13. Pyongyang says she died while North Korea, but Japan says the North has offered no concrete evidence of her death. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Prime Minister Miyazawa dies at 87

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the home of former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Tokyo on June 28 after Miyazawa died at the age of 87 earlier in the day. (Kyodo)

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PM Abe visits college in Nara

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) has lunch with students at Hakuho College in the western Japan town of Oji, Nara Prefecture, on June 10, 2016. The students became eligible to vote in the July 10 upper house election, after the voting age was lowered from 20 to 18 in the previous year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korea tells Japan more time needed for abduction probe

Photo taken July 1, 2015, shows Sakie (L) and Shigeru Yokota (2nd from L), the parents of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted to North Korea in 1977 at age 13, attending a meeting in Tokyo. The two, along with Shigeo Iizuka (R), who heads a group of abductees' families, called for the return of abducted Japanese. Pyongyang has told Tokyo that it needs more time to complete its investigation into the fates of Japanese in the North, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on July 3. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Novelist-turned-nun Setouchi against national security bills

Noted novelist-turned-nun Jakucho Setouchi, recovering from compression fracture and cancer at age 93, takes part in a civic group-organized protest rally near the Diet building in Tokyo on June 18, 2015, against a package of national security bills tabled in parliament by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe attends funeral of former lower house speaker

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gives a condolence speech at the funeral of former lower house speaker Nobutaka Machimura in Tokyo on June 5, 2015. Machimura died on June 1 at the age of 70 after stepping down in April following a minor stroke. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe meets with families of Japanese abductees

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) gives a list of donations to Shigeru (C) and Sakie Yokota, the parents of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted to North Korea in 1977 at age 13, at the Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters in Tokyo on April 14, 2015. The donations were collected when a play themed on the abduction of Megumi was performed at the headquarters on March 27. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe to step down

File photo taken in June 2014 shows Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) posing for a photo with the parents of Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13 at a photo exhibition featuring their daughter in Tokyo. Abe will step down from his post due to health concerns, a source from his Liberal Democratic Party said on Aug. 28, 2020.

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Japan parliament approves bill to revise referendum law

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's House of Councillors approves a revision bill for the national referendum law by a majority vote on June 13, 2014. The bill is aimed at lowering the minimum voting age for national referendums four years after the revision takes effect, amid Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push for constitutional reform. (Kyodo)

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Revision bill over retirement age

National Public Safety Commission Chairman Ryota Takeda attends a Cabinet committee meeting of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on May 13, 2020, about a revision bill that would extend the retirement age for prosecutors. He said the bill has no connection with an extension to the retirement of Hiromu Kurokawa, chief of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, who is widely believed to be favored by the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial ceremony for father of N. Korea abductee

(From L in front row) Sakie Yokota, the widow of Shigeru Yokota, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his predecessor Shinzo Abe attend a memorial ceremony in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2020, for Shigeru Yokota, who died in June at the age of 87. Yokota worked tirelessly for the return of his daughter Megumi and her compatriots who were abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Suga elected new head of Japan's LDP

Sakie Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, speaks to the media in Kawasaki near Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2020, after Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga was elected the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's president to succeed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Suga is set to be appointed prime minister by parliament on Sept. 16.

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Abe on death of N. Korean abduction victim's father

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in Tokyo on June 5, 2020, following the death of Shigeru Yokota, the father of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at the age of 13. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe on death of N. Korean abduction victim's father

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in Tokyo on June 5, 2020, following the death of Shigeru Yokota, the father of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at the age of 13. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe on death of N. Korean abduction victim's father

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in Tokyo on June 5, 2020, following the death of Shigeru Yokota, the father of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at the age of 13. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Death of N. Korean abduction victim's father

File photo taken in April 2016 in Tokyo shows Shigeru Yokota (2nd from R), the father of Megumi Yokota, a symbolic figure in the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s, shaking hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Shigeru Yokota died on June 5, 2020, at age 87. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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LDP's secretary general

Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, speaks after meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on May 18, 2020. The LDP-led government gave up seeking passage of a controversial bill to raise the retirement age for prosecutors during the current parliamentary session. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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LDP's secretary general

Toshihiro Nikai (2nd from L), secretary general of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, speaks after meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on May 18, 2020. The LDP-led government gave up seeking passage of a controversial bill to raise the retirement age for prosecutors during the current parliamentary session. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves after speaking to reporters at his office in Tokyo on May 18, 2020. Abe gave up seeking passage of a controversial bill to raise the retirement age for prosecutors during the current parliamentary session. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on May 18, 2020, after giving up seeking passage of a controversial bill to raise the retirement age for prosecutors during the current parliamentary session. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on May 18, 2020, after giving up seeking passage of a controversial bill to raise the retirement age for prosecutors during the current parliamentary session. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe at meeting of LDP executives

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) attends a meeting of Liberal Democratic Party executives in Tokyo on May 18, 2020. The government and the LDP-led ruling coalition agreed the same day to shelve a plan to enact a law to extend the retirement age of prosecutors during the current parliamentary session, amid heated criticism from opposition parties and the public led by celebrities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe at meeting of LDP executives

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) attends a meeting of Liberal Democratic Party executives in Tokyo on May 18, 2020. The government and the LDP-led ruling coalition agreed the same day to shelve a plan to enact a law to extend the retirement age of prosecutors during the current parliamentary session, amid heated criticism from opposition parties and the public led by celebrities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe at meeting of LDP executives

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a meeting of Liberal Democratic Party executives in Tokyo on May 18, 2020. The government and the LDP-led ruling coalition agreed the same day to shelve a plan to enact a law to extend the retirement age of prosecutors during the current parliamentary session, amid heated criticism from opposition parties and the public led by celebrities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Revision bill over prosecutors' retirement age

Toshihiro Nikai (2nd from R), secretary general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on May 18, 2020, after meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The two agreed to shelve a plan to enact a law to extend the retirement age of prosecutors during the current Diet session, apparently yielding to criticism from the public, sparked by Twitter comments opposing the idea led by celebrities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Revision bill over prosecutors' retirement age

Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on May 18, 2020, after meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The two agreed to shelve a plan to enact a law to extend the retirement age of prosecutors during the current Diet session, apparently yielding to criticism from the public, sparked by Twitter comments opposing the idea led by celebrities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Revision bill over retirement age

A screen photographed in Tokyo on May 14, 2020, shows an online meeting held by lawyers and others who oppose the planned extension of the retirement age for prosecutors by the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office chief Kurokawa

Photo taken Jan. 21, 2019, shows Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office chief Hiromu Kurokawa. Mail containing a cutter knife blade addressed to him arrived at the office on May 13, 2020. The Cabinet has endorsed extending the retirement age for Kurokawa, who is believed to be favored by the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Revision bill over retirement age

A Cabinet committee meeting of the House of Representatives is held in Tokyo on May 13, 2020, to discuss a revision bill that would extend the retirement age for prosecutors. National Public Safety Commission Chairman Ryota Takeda said the bill has no connection with an extension to the retirement of Hiromu Kurokawa, chief of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, who is widely believed to be favored by the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Revision bill over retirement age

National Public Safety Commission Chairman Ryota Takeda raises his hand to speak during a Cabinet committee meeting of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on May 13, 2020, about a revision bill that would extend the retirement age for prosecutors. He said the bill has no connection with an extension to the retirement of Hiromu Kurokawa, chief of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, who is widely believed to be favored by the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe meets with families of abductees

Sakie Yokota (R), whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, speaks in Tokyo on May 19, 2019, during a meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and relatives of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe, kin of people abducted by N. Kore

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) meets with a group representing the families of people abducted by North Korea, at his office in Tokyo on March 6, 2019. The visitors included Shigeo Iizuka (2nd from L), head of the group, and Sakie Yokota (L), whose daughter Megumi was kidnapped in 1977 at age 13. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kin of Japanese abducted by N. Korea

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) meets with Sakie Yokota (L), whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, and Shigeo Iizuka, leader of a group representing abductees' families, at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 19, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kin of Japanese abducted by N. Korea

Shigeo Iizuka (L), who heads a group representing families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Feb. 19, 2019, after requesting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe push for the return of their abducted loved ones. Alongside him is Sakie Yokota, the mother of Megumi, an iconic victim who was kidnapped in 1977 at age 13. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kin of Japanese abducted by N. Korea

Sakie Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, speaks to reporters after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 19, 2019. She requested the government push for a reunion with her daughter as soon as possible. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families of Japanese abductees

Sakie Yokota (R), whose daughter Megumi was abducted in 1977 at age 13, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) at a meeting in Tokyo on April 22, 2018, with other families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe speaks about Japanese abduction by North Korea

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) meets with Sakie Yokota (R), whose daughter Megumi was abducted to North Korea in 1977 at age 13, and Shigeo Iizuka (2nd from R), the head of a group representing families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, in Tokyo on April 22, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former Japan PM Tsutomu Hata's funeral held in Tokyo

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offers prayers on Sept. 8, 2017, at the funeral in Tokyo of former Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata, who died of natural causes on Aug. 28 at age 82. Pictured behind Abe is Seiji Maehara, the new leader of the main opposition Democratic Party. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe, Obama to visit Pearl Harbor

Photo taken Dec. 15, 2016, at the visitors center of the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii shows an "orizuru" paper crane, created by Sadako Sasaki who died at age 12 in 1955, 10 years after being exposed to radiation from the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit there with U.S. President Barack Obama later in the month to remember those who died in the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It is believed in Japan that one's wish will come true if one folds a thousand cranes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Koizumi, campaigner for return of northern isles, dies at age 93

Toshio Koizumi (L), who long led a national movement seeking the return of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in this file photo taken in March 2013 at the prime minister's office in Tokyo. It was reported on Nov. 25, 2016, that Koizumi died at age 93 at a Sapporo hospital the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo