Taro Kono’s remarks come after several prominent executives made similar pleas, though no economists expect a move when the ...

Internal rivals and a resurgent nationalist right are jeopardising Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's already precarious position With his grasp on power slipping, Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s power waned as the LDP and Komeito lost their upper house majority in Japan’s July 20 ...

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

The Liberal Democratic Party will convene a joint plenary meeting for LDP lawmakers from both Diet chambers amid continuing ...

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

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

The Liberal Democratic Party's unsuccessful candidates in last month's Upper House election say that Japan's main governing ...

The LDP sought organized votes through industry associations, the party’s traditional power base, for the by-election because it could not expect support from unaffiliated voters.

If the LDP is relying on Komeito to reach a majority, that will give more leverage to a party that has pushed back on some of the LDP's more hawkish security policies in the past, he added.

LDP's reliance on ROC is not high, totalling $0.50 / share between 2017 to 2021 or 5.2% of the $9.62 / share in distributions paid (Figure 7). Figure 7 - LDP financial summary (LDP 2021 annual report) ...

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 ...