On any list of central bankers dying to get off this crazy thing called 2025, Japan’s Kazuo Ueda deserves a spot at the very ...

Japan's far-right Sanseito party has emerged as a political force after securing a record number of seats in the recent upper ...

There were two big losers in Sunday’s Upper House elections.The biggest loser was the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which, ...

Please forgive me. I know the last presidential election was only eight months ago, and you may not have gotten over it yet.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's resignation has become unavoidable. The ruling coalition has now suffered crushing defeats in ...

A postelection survey conducted by Kyodo News showed Friday that 56.4 percent of House of Councillors members do not favor a ...

Scrambling to pay legal fees, Media Matters has dialed back its criticism, trimmed its staff and contemplated closing ...

The minority government of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is under pressure to quickly decide on how to respond to the ...

Kamiya won Sanseito’s first upper house seat in 2022. During the campaign, he published a pamphlet that claimed Jewish ...

Like Ishiba’s political future, Japan's parliamentary politics is also facing uncertainty, particularly its Cabinet system.

Prospect of a hawkish premier on Japan’s history and China has fuelled online calls for moderate Shigeru Ishiba to stay.

Calls are growing in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party to convene an official decision-making meeting on Prime Minister ...