China is also believed to have promised money during Macron's visit to Beijing early last month while Parly sought a Japanese contribution when she met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on 27 January...

At least partly in response to a United States call for greater Japanese participation in world affairs Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won parliamentary approval for an expanded overseas role for the Japan Self-Defence Forces...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's state tour to Côte d'Ivoire Mozambique and Ethiopia in early January was only the third official visit by a serving Japanese Premier to take in several African countries at once: in 2001 Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori travelled to a number of countries on the continent as did Junichiro Koizumi in 2006...

Shinzo Abe's government considers Africa a more important part of Japan's economic future than its predecessor but there is also a keen awareness of the stiff competition from other Asian countries...

This month in discussions with Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced further lending from Tokyo for power plant and infrastructure development projects...

That's why Salva Kiir went to Japan on 29 May to discuss aid with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Yokohama at the three-day Tokyo International Conference on African Development (AAC Vol 6 No 8 TICAD V - An agenda for business)...

In response to the January 2013 attack on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to spend a chunk of Tokyo's 2014 defence budget on launching a more robust intelligence-gathering operation across seven African countries...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's headline-grabbing $32 bn...

At the Fifth Tokyo International Conference for African Development Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government pledged ¥3...

In Yokohama Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will remain mostly on the sidelines attending bilateral meetings with 40 African delegations during the three-day conference...