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

Great attention in South Korea is rightfully focused on the high-stakes visit later this month of President Lee Jae Myung to Washington, DC. Worries ...

The recent election for Japan’s Upper House of Councillors is a pivotal moment for Japanese politics, revealing fractures within the ruling coalition and a simultaneous rise of the political right.

Traditionally, LDP leaders who faced major electoral setbacks have stepped down. Ishiba has no intention of following that ...

Tokyo prosecutors on Aug. 15 filed a summary indictment against an aide of Koichi Hagiuda, former chairman of the ruling ...

Hiroshi Moriyama, the No. 2 figure in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, visited the war-linked Yasukuni shrine on Thursday ...

The Tokyo Summary Court on Friday fined a policy secretary of Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Koichi Hagiuda for violating ...

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

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan must raise interest rates and get its fiscal house in order to strengthen a weak yen that has pushed ...

In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees. This has ...

Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its World War Two defeat on Friday, with at least one cabinet minister joining thousands ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering, but stopped short of visiting the shrine. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...