Japan's ruling party plans to gauge the support of its members in writing on whether it should hold an earlier than scheduled ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba reiterated Friday his intention to stay on as Japan's leader, defying calls to step down as the ...

In the Tokyo metropolitan assembly, the LDP controls 30 seats, followed by Tomin First no Kai with 28 seats and Komeito, the LDP’s junior coalition partner, with 23 seats.

He was banned from holding any senior party post for a year in April for his involvement in the LDP's slush funds scandal. However, he has remained as head of the Tokyo chapter as the punishment ...

TOKYO, July 4 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and allies failed to win outright a local election in Tokyo on Sunday that was seen as a key test ...

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secured its lowest number of seats ever in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election on June 22. The party fell from being the largest faction in the assembly ...

Japan must raise interest rates and get its fiscal house in order to strengthen a weak yen that has pushed up inflation and ...

In previous meetings, LDP officials had suggested that Komeito run candidates in other single-seat districts of Tokyo. But Komeito only had eyes for the No. 28 district.

Experts associate the rise of the ultra-nationalist Sanseito party with a crisis of confidence after decades of economic ...

On July 2, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered a historic defeat in the Tokyo metropolitan elections. Though on one level, the election was about how Tokyoites ...

The agreement, signed by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Komeito head Natsuo Yamaguchi, commits the LDP to supporting Komeito’s candidate for the Tokyo No. 29 district.

Public broadcaster NHK said the LDP had won 33 seats in Tokyo's 127-member assembly, just ahead of Tokyo Citizens First, the party of Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, with 31 seats.