Voting was underway in three key House of Representatives by-elections in Japan on Sunday, with results expected to be confirmed late into the night. Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. …
Ryu Shionoya, former chairman of the General Council of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, submitted his resignation from the party on Tuesday, after the party rejected his appeal against its …
Economic security minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday visited war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during its three-day spring festival from Sunday. She signed a visitors’ book as a minister and made …
Candidates backed by the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan are in the lead ahead of three by-elections for the House of Representatives on Sunday. The ruling Liberal Democratic …
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida marked 932 days in office Monday, tying with Ryutaro Hashimoto as the eighth-longest-serving prime minister in Japan since the end of World War II. The next …
Taro Aso, a former prime minister who currently serves as vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party, will travel to New York next week and is seeking a meeting with …
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday declined a request from senior party lawmaker Ryu Shionoya to review a penalty given to him over a high-profile political funding scandal. Hiroshi …
Okuma, Fukushima Pref. – Former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visited the disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Monday to inspect progress on the release of tritium-containing treated water …
Kumamoto – Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday said that he aims for a stricter political funds control law, following a high-profile money scandal involving factions of the Liberal Democratic …
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will not field candidates in two of three upcoming by-elections for the House of Representatives amid headwinds the party faces over a slush fund scandal …