The election debacle comes only months after Shigeru Ishiba's coalition was forced into a minority government in the more ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's future was uncertain after his coalition appeared to have disastrously lost its ...

The result is the second dismal election showing for Ishiba since he became premier last October, even though the coalition’s ...

From Willem Thorbecke, Senior Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, Tokyo, Japan Leo Lewis’s column was thought-provoking as always (“A weak yen is the root of Japan’s lurch to ...

Voters angry at inflation turned to other parties, notably the "Japanese first" Sanseito, which made strong gains with its ...

If the current ruling party loses its majority, the country’s waters could become uncharted at a critical time.

12:20 a.m. The LDP failed to win a single seat in the Osaka district, where four seats were up for election, marking the first time the ruling party failed to capture a seat there in 27 years. The ...

The ruling LDP coalition may lose its upper house majority.

Although Japan’s economy shows signs of returning to normal inflation for the first time in three decades, global headwinds ...

“Our policy is to protect and increase (in that order) the value of shareholders’ funds per share over the long term” is the ...