The Japanese electorate appeared to punish the Liberal Democrats, leaving it unclear whether the party would be forced to expand its coalition to stay in power. By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and ...
Polls opened Sunday in Japan’s general election, in a test for new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as he seeks voter support for his scandal-hit party just weeks after taking the role. Ishiba ...
TOKYO – The political obituaries are already being pre-written for what could well be Japan’s shortest post-war premiership, if the outcome in a hastily called snap election on Oct 27 does not ...
WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The U.S., South Korean and Japanese national security advisers expressed "grave concern" on Friday over the deployment of North Korean troops in Russia for possible ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Japan’s Prime Minister and head of the governing Liberal Democratic Party Shigeru Ishiba attends a ...
AKASHI, Japan -- As Japan heads to the polls in a national election this Sunday, the unpopularity of the incumbent government led by newly installed Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has left rare ...
Shohei Ohtani has been a superstar in Japan for more than a decade, but one day earlier this year, a Tokyo resident named Tatsuo Shinke noticed something different. Shinke, the CEO of Mint ...
Japan’s ruling coalition is in danger of losing its majority in the lower house of parliament for the first time since 2009, and strategists see the yen and stocks falling on such an outcome ...
Japan has observed secretive exercises on the NSW south coast involving the latest autonomous maritime technology from the three AUKUS partners. There is growing speculation Japan will be included ...
Ishiba’s call for an “Asian NATO” represents the nexus between the Japan-U.S. alliance and internationalism – both hallmarks of Japanese foreign policy, especially in the post-Cold War era.
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party has held power for all but a handful of years since the 1950s largely due to strong support in rural areas of the archipelago. That formula for success now looks ...
An attack on a bus in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province has left a number of people dead and others wounded. It happened on Monday evening, according to the Post-Courier newspaper. It said the bus was ...