The party might be open to joining if there is a new prime minister and Osaka is designated as Japan's backup capital, its ...

The Liberal Democratic Party's unsuccessful candidates in last month's Upper House election say that Japan's main governing ...

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

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

Japanese politics is different in many ways, but in one, it’s having what appears to be an analogous moment: “Honestly ...

"They are the party of YouTube," said Jeffrey Hall, a lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies who has authored ...

Russia, China, and South Korea are trying to predict what the rise of Japan’s far right will mean for their interests.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba denied talk on Wednesday that he had decided to quit after a source and media reports ...

A fringe far-right populist party in Japan was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election ...

Japan’s voters dealt Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) with yet another devastating blow on ...

Anti-establishment parties focused on wages, immigration and an unresponsive political elite struck a chord with working-age ...