Domestic stability enabled Japan to take on an international leadership role. Those days may be over. The post A Weakened ...

Analysts predict a short tenure for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, with one noting that Japan could return to an era of ...

Voters in Japan have spoken and delivered the loud and clear message to the ruling coalition that they cannot be taken for a ...

Both the LDP and the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the main beneficiary of the election– though ...

After years of relative stability, Japanese politics is about to enter a shaky period after a terrible showing by the LDP.

Sanae Takaichi, a right-winger who would offer herself as Japan's first female prime minister, or Shinjiro Koizumi, son of ...

Besides contest from opposition parties emboldened by considerable gains in the snap polls, the biggest challenge could be ...

The TOPIX had earlier risen due to expectations that Sanae Takaichi, a female dovish candidate ... Just one day later, after a meeting with Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda, Ishiba said explicitly ...

Tokyo (AsiaNews) – Japan is set to vote tomorrow to renew ... According to some reports, Sanae Takaichi, a former Minister of State for Economic Security and a Shinzo Abe loyalist, is working ...

First is whether the administration can withstand internal fissures. The primary reason for the LDP’s loss is the public’s long-standing disdain for its mixture of politics and money. Although the ...

Japan’s October 2024 general election ended in a brutal takedown for the LDP. Having lost the majority it held since 2012, ...