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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...