The results of the election in Japan’s House of Councillors highlight a key trend: An era of political fragmentation in ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said at a meeting on Monday that "it is necessary" to issue a prime minister's comment ...

Takeharu Yamanaka, an independent who had the backing of three parties, pledged to enhance child-rearing support for ...

For the country known as the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’, the sun is only just still shining on the prime ministership of ...

Tokyo prosecutors are considering issuing a summary indictment of Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Koichi Hagiuda’s policy ...

Hagiuda, also a former LDP policy chief, was known as a confidant of Abe, who once led the party's largest faction that was influential in selecting prime ministers. Abe, Japan's longest-serving ...

The Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito, which now comprise a minority in both houses of the Diet, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided not to express his views on World War II on the 80th anniversary of its end on Aug 15 but may do so later, government sources said Friday. Although ...

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Japan’s latest upper-house election felt less like routine business than the season finale of an overlong anime: exhausted ...

“Kamiya sort of positions himself as a mini-Trump,” Kingston, the Asian studies professor, tells TIME. “He’s appealing to the ...

EDITORIAL. The ruling coalition's loss of a majority in the House of Councillors in the July 20 elections and the breakthrough of the ultra-conservative Sanseito party have triggered an unprecedented ...