Nearly half of people in Japan expect little from Sanseito, the populist party that made significant gains in the latest ...

The approval ratings of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Cabinet rose 5 percentage points from last month to 29% in a weekend ...

While the ballot does not directly determine whether Ishiba’s government falls, it heaps pressure on the leader.

Anti-establishment parties focused on wages, immigration and an unresponsive political elite struck a chord with working-age ...

TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Mini­ster Shigeru Ishiba expressed his intention to stay in the position on Sunday, after his ruling ...

The Bank of Japan will raise its key interest rate by at least 25 basis points by year-end, a majority of economists said in ...

TOKYO -- The approval rating of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's cabinet hit 32%, the lowest since his government's October 2024 launch, in the latest Nikkei/TV Tokyo survey.

The monthly poll, which tracks the Bank of Japan's quarterly tankan business survey, showed the manufacturers' sentiment ...

More than two-thirds of Japanese firms believe the government should compile an extra budget later this year to mitigate the ...

In October, Ishiba gambled on a snap election in which the LDP and its coalition partner, the New Komeito party, lost its majority in the lower house and have since been forced to work with smaller ...

"They are the party of YouTube," said Jeffrey Hall, a lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies who has authored ...

Exit polls show Japan's ruling coalition likely losing upper house majority, raising political instability amid inflation, ...