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Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will attend the state funeral of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter later this week, Japan's government said Tuesday. Suga will represent Japan as Prime ...

As they filed into the front pews at Washington National Cathedral, wearing dark suits and mostly solemn faces, five current and former presidents came together for Jimmy Carter's funeral. For a ...

The Japan Coast Guard held a public funeral in Tokyo on March 2 for the five crew members killed in a fiery Jan. 2 collision between a JCG aircraft and a Japan Airlines passenger jet on the ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and US Senator Bill Hagerty have confirmed that they will work to uphold and bolster the bilateral alliance from their respective positions.

Former US President Jimmy Carter's legacy as a public servant, peacemaker, and humanitarian was celebrated on Thursday at a ...

Hajime Himonya, standing director of Nihon Soso Bunka Gakkai (the Japan funeral culture study group), cautioned that "scattering ashes may violate the Penal Code if it is done solely to dispose of ...

A funeral service was held with family and friends ... 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan. Itooka, ...

A now 88-year-old man who narrowly survived the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated this west Japan city still ...

NEW DELHI--The state funeral for Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister widely regarded as the architect of the country’s economic reform program, began Saturday as politicians and the ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, elected in October, has expressed his intent to move into his official residence despite persistent rumours of the house being "haunted".