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    Ex-Japan PM Abe to face questioning in parliament over funding scandal

    25 Dec 2020

    Japan’s longest-serving leader denied he had known anything about the payments, maintained innocence and pledged to work to regain public trust. The apology came after his secretary was summarily indicted over the issue and fined 1 million yen ($9,650).

    Japan ex-PM Abe apologises, corrects statements on funding scandal

    25 Dec 2020

    Japan’s longest-serving leader said he had known nothing about the payments and pledged to work to regain public trust. The apology came after his secretary was on Thursday summarily indicted over the issue and fined 1 million yen ($9,650).

    Japan PM Shinzo Abe criticised as tone deaf after lounge-at-home Twitter video

    12 Apr 2020

    "Who do you think you are?" became a top trend on Twitter, with users saying Abe's message ignored the plight of those struggling to make a living during the coronavirus outbreak.

    Trump pays Japan’s Abe ‘highest respect,’ plans to call him

    29 Aug 2020

    Abe's team is arranging the call for Monday Japan time, with the prime minister informing the president directly about his resignation, Kyodo news agency said, citing unnamed government sources.

    Japan marks 75th anniversary of war end

    15 Aug 2020

    Amid virus fears and worries about the fading memories of the fast-aging war generation, about 500 participants, reduced from 6,200 last year, mourned the dead with a minute of silence. Masks were required, and there was no singing of the "Kimigayo” national anthem.

    US ‘not looking for regime change’ in Iran: Trump

    27 May 2019

    President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States was not seeking “regime change” in Iran despite mounting tensions, in dovish comments also praising North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un as a “very smart guy.”

    Trump says expects to get trade gap with Japan fixed fast

    27 May 2019

    US President Donald Trump kept up pressure on Japan to cut its trade surplus with America, saying ahead of a summit with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he expected some announcements, probably in August,

    Trump arrives for sumo summit with Abe

    25 May 2019

    Japanese and US officials hail as "unprecedented" the relationship between Trump and his "golf buddy", Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and the pair will again find time for a round to cement their diplomatic bromance.

    Trump, Abe to burnish ties over golf, sumo and steak

    25 May 2019

    US President Donald Trump arrives in Japan on Saturday for a four-day trip likely to be dominated by warm words and friendly images, but light on substantive progress over trade.

    Trump tees up Japan summit with Abe golf match

    26 May 2019

    Under a cloudless sky with sizzling temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), the two world leaders hit the fairway at the Mobara Country Club course in Chiba, just outside the capital.

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