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Family separated by nuclear crisis

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Yasuhiro Abe looks at family photos at his office in Fukushima City on Feb. 26, 2013. Abe lives alone in Fukushima for his work, separated from his family who live in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture. His wife and son took refuge there in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Family separated by nuclear crisis

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Yasuhiro Abe keeps on hand a family photo taken in March 2011 after he evacuated from his home in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, together with his wife and son following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami. For work, Abe lives alone in Fukushima City, separated from his wife and son, who live in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture. Photo taken in Fukushima City on Feb. 26, 2013.

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China's Hu meets former Japanese prime minsters

TOKYO, Japan - Four former Japanese prime ministers -- (from L to R) Toshiki Kaifu, Yoshiro Mori, Yasuhiro Nakasone and Shinzo Abe -- and Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) pose for photos before their breakfast meeting at a hotel in Tokyo on May 8. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Abe starts busy 1st day as LDP chief with courtesy calls

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Abe (L), who was elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party on Sept. 20, shakes hands with former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as he visits Nakasone's office in Tokyo on Sept. 21.

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Japan to provide 150 judo uniforms to Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Olympic judo gold medalist Yasuhiro Yamashita (L) and Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Masatoshi Abe (C) hand Sameir al-Mousoy, head of Iraq's judo association, a judo uniform and a list of judo equipment Japan will donate to Iraq, at the Foreign Ministry on March 3. The equipment includes 150 judo uniforms and about 200 tatami judo mats.

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Tightened security ahead of Abe's state funeral

National Police Agency Commissioner General Yasuhiro Tsuyuki (2nd from R) meets the press in front of the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2022, after inspecting its vicinity ahead of the state funeral of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe being held there on Sept. 27.

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Tightened security ahead of Abe's state funeral

National Police Agency Commissioner General Yasuhiro Tsuyuki (2nd from L) inspects the vicinity of Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2022, ahead of the state funeral of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe being held there on Sept. 27.

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Japan's new police chief

Yasuhiro Tsuyuki (L), new commissioner general of Japan's National Police Agency, shakes hands with his predecessor Itaru Nakamura at the agency's head office in Tokyo on Aug. 30, 2022. Nakamura effectively stepped down from the post to take responsibility for the July 8 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during upper house election campaigning.

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Abe starts busy 1st day as LDP chief with courtesy calls

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Abe (L), who was elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party on Sept. 20, shakes hands with former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as he visits Nakasone's office in Tokyo on Sept. 21. (Kyodo)

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China's Hu meets former Japanese prime minsters

TOKYO, Japan - Four former Japanese prime ministers -- (from L to R) Toshiki Kaifu, Yoshiro Mori, Yasuhiro Nakasone and Shinzo Abe -- and Chinese President Hu Jintao (C) pose for photos before their breakfast meeting at a hotel in Tokyo on May 8. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

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Abe equals mark for 4th longest-serving postwar PM

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a parliamentary session in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2016. Two days later, Abe matched former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's 1,806 days in office in the 1980s, making him the joint fourth longest-serving Japanese leader in the postwar era. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese PM Abe and Russian President Putin

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (3rd from L) watch matches during the Annual International Vladivostok Jigoro Kano Junior Judo Tournament in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 12, 2018. Seen on their right is Yasuhiro Yamashita, an Olympics-winning judoka from Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe calls for "historic step" toward constitutional reform

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) speaks at a gathering of a cross-party league of lawmakers in favor of constitutional reform in Tokyo on May 1, 2017, alongside former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. Abe said this year is the right time to "take a historic step" in reforming Japan's post-World War II pacifist Constitution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe meets envoy returning home from Seoul over "comfort women" row

Yasumasa Nagamine (front), Japan's ambassador to South Korea, and Yasuhiro Morimoto, its consul general in Busan, arrive at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 10, 2017 to meet with Shinzo Abe. Both were recalled home as part of Tokyo's response to the installation of a new statue dedicated to "comfort women" who were forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Putin visits Kodokan Judo Institute in Tokyo

(From L, front row) Yoshiro Mori, head of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Olympic judo gold medalist Yasuhiro Yamashita, who now serves as vice president of the All Japan Judo Federation, watch a performance by two men in armor at the Kodokan Judo Institute in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2016. Putin is a well-known judo enthusiast. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to provide 150 judo uniforms to Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Olympic judo gold medalist Yasuhiro Yamashita (L) and Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Masatoshi Abe (C) hand Sameir al-Mousoy, head of Iraq's judo association, a judo uniform and a list of judo equipment Japan will donate to Iraq, at the Foreign Ministry on March 3. The equipment includes 150 judo uniforms and about 200 tatami judo mats. (Kyodo)