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

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

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

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 ...

Japan's deepening political uncertainty risks prolonging policy paralysis that could affect the drafting of next year's ...

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

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

Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its World War II defeat yesterday, with at least one Cabinet minister joining thousands of visitors at a shrine that Japan’s Asian neighbors view as a symbol of ...

A delegation of more than 70 members of the Youth Division of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has reportedly arrived in the island of Taiwan on Sunday for a visit scheduled to run ...

It was at an 18th century Georgian manor house outside London that Japanese lawmaker Rui Matsukawa began to have serious ...