Japanese politics is different in many ways, but in one, it’s having what appears to be an analogous moment: “Honestly ...

The current political crisis is the result of a July 20 election in Japan’s upper house, the less-powerful chamber in ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is arranging to convene a key decision-making meeting as early as late next week.

Japan’s voters dealt Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) with yet another devastating blow on ...

The lack of obvious successors who can unite the party and raise public support, coupled with a cautious opposition, puts him ...

Following the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)'s crushing defeat in the House of Councillors election, calls for Prime Minister ...

Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has reiterated his intention to remain in office after emerging from a meeting that his ...

The public doesn’t know what it wants — other than “not this” — so indecision by the LDP and other parties is understandable.

Following two successive national election defeats, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is facing withering criticism from foes and ...

LDP Secretary-General Hiroshi Moriyama emphasized that the purpose of transferring the funds to the branches was not to help non-endorsed candidates in the Lower House election campaign.

The LDP's increasingly powerful operation was funded by the government's highly successful cultivation of the export sector and its efforts to drive domestic demand, which created the growth—and ...