With Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike securing her third consecutive term in a July election, the focus of metropolitan government officials is now shifting to the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election set…
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's former health minister and a candidate for the ruling party's leadership Katsunobu Kato on Tuesday called for a stimulus package to boost domestic investment and finance…
Economic security minister Sanae Takaichi became the first female candidate, and the seventh overall, to declare her candidacy in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election on Monday, just three days…
Four members of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) filed their candidacies Saturday for the main opposition party's Sept. 23 leadership election. The candidates are former Prime Minister Yoshihiko…
On Friday, former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi made clear that he will call a snap election as soon as possible if chosen as the Liberal Democratic Party's next leader in…
A week before the race officially kicks off, candidates for the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party are wasting no time, using every occasion to show the public they have…
With political reform one of the top issues in the Sept. 27 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi proposed a new independent agency to regulate political…
Nearly a dozen Liberal Democratic Party legislators could run in next month's party presidential election, including veterans and junior legislators, making for an unusually crowded and unpredictable race.But each of…
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's surprise announcement Wednesday to not seek reelection as Liberal Democratic Party president next month raises the question of who might succeed him. The winner of the…
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday he will not run in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election slated for September, guaranteeing that Japan will have a new prime minister…