Hours before winning a vote to stay on as Japan’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba was caught napping in parliament. But with Donald Trump headed back to the White House, he needs to wake up fast.

Domestic stability enabled Japan to take on an international leadership role. Those days may be over. The post A Weakened ...

A scandal and economic stagnation spur Japanese voters to challenge decades of LDP rule Shigeru Ishiba, Japan's prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), arrives for a ...

LDP Secretary-General Moriyama Hiroshi and DPFP counterpart Shimba Kazuya held talks on Thursday morning. The parties' Diet affairs chiefs also attended. The talks come after the LDP and its ...

including potential moves to elevate Ishiba’s LDP presidential contest rival Takaichi Sanae to the party’s top post, with an eye on the House of Councillors election expected by the summer of ...

The LDP's subsidies are expected to total ¥15.65 billion ($102 million) for the year, after the number of the party's seats in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament ...

Meanwhile, former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, who lost the party leadership to Ishiba in a runoff vote last month, could take over as LDP chief if he steps down. The next few weeks ...

First is whether the administration can withstand internal fissures. The primary reason for the LDP’s loss is the public’s long-standing disdain for its mixture of politics and money. Although the ...

The Japanese people have had their say at the polls. And they've handed the ruling coalition a stinging rebuke.

Focus was now on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and the LDP’s efforts to maintain power, which are likely to involve coalitions with regional parties. But Japanese markets rallied after the ...

While he won the LDP leadership race on Sept ... of names such as former minister in charge of economic security Sanae Takaichi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi as well as finance ...