The end of Japan's 26-year-long ruling coalition just before Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took office in October will force the centrist Komeito party, which had long wielded influence ...

Protesters attend a rally against the ruling coalition's plan to ease arms export in front of the headquarters of the Liberal ...

Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba holds a press conference in Tokyo TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's ruling party may lose its majority in the lower house, according to media polling ahead of the Oct. 27 election, ...

The Liberal Democratic Party’s strategy of electing Sanae Takaichi as president to win back supporters who had drifted to new ...

In 2026, Japan’s fragmented Diet will have less room to govern as economic pressures, demographic decline and regional uncertainties sharpen policy trade-offs ...

Sunday’s parliamentary election in Japan for the lower house of the Diet has resulted in a stunning setback for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). With its ally Komeito, it failed to win a ...

Newly elected president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Shigeru Ishiba, holds a press conference after a runoff ballot in a leadership contest which he won by a narrow 21-vote margin.

Hagiuda told Lai that he hopes to continue deepening what he described as the best-ever relations between the two sides.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced his resignation after less than a year in the role - following two crushing election losses. His resignation came a day before his opponents in his ...

TOKYO, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The head of tax policy at Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) said on Friday that raising corporate taxes was an option to fund the country's defence build-up, the ...

On Wednesday former Japanese Foreign Minister Kishida Fumio became the face of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and effectively Japan’s 100th prime minister after defeating administrative ...

TOKYO, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Japanese voters swept the opposition to a historic victory in an election on Sunday, ousting the long-ruling conservative party and handing the novice Democrats the job of ...