Nobusuke Kishi (1896-1987) was a Japanese statesman who was imprisoned as a war criminal but released by the Allied Occupation authorities after World War II. His term as prime minister was marked by turbulent opposition to the U.S.-Japan security...

(1896–1987), prime minister of Japan. Born in Yamaguchi prefecture in November 1896 to the Sato family, Kishi was the second male in a family of ten children. During his teenage years, he was adopted into the family of his father's older...

Nobusuke Kishi (岸 信介 Kishi Nobusuke, November 13, 1896–August 7, 1987) was a Japanese politician and the 56th and 57th Prime Minister of Japan from February 25, 1957 to June 12, 1958 and from then to July 19,...

Former prime minister Nobusuke Kishi, 90, who sought to strengthen ties with the United States through a controversial revision of the 1951 U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty, died of a heart ailment today at a Tokyo hospital. Two months after the treaty revision was...

TOKYO - Former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, a signatory of Japan's war declaration against the United States who later pushed through a postwar alliance with Washington, died Friday of heart failure. He was 90. He also spent 3 1/2 years in prison as...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday met with the son of an Indian judge who sat on the World War II war crimes tribunal that acquitted Abe's grandfather, a visit some in Japan fear could affect improving relations with its neighbors.Abe ended a three-day...