New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces major obstacles in pushing his ambitious defense agenda as polling suggests his party will lose ground in Sunday's general election, forcing it to…
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…
TOKYO (AP) — A man threw several firebombs into the headquarters of Japan's governing party in Tokyo on Saturday, then crashed his car into the fencing of the prime minister's…
Japan's ruling party headquarters is attacked with firebombs and suspect is arrested, media report PinalCentral Source link
The Defense Minister of Japan, Gen Nakatani invited two of America's most senior soldiers to a meeting in Tokyo in mid October as China escalated its war games near Taiwan.…
The previous record was 229 in the 2009 general election. Female leaders are still rare in business and politics in Japan, which is ranked 118 out of 146 in the…
The Oct. 27 general election — the first nationwide vote since a slush funds scandal was uncovered within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party — comes as an early test of…
Following a Japanese atomic bomb survivors group's historic Nobel Peace Prize win Fridaythe country's stance on nuclear disarmament has once again been put under the spotlight.Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, a…
TOKYO (AP) — Official campaigning for Japan's Oct. 27 parliamentary election began Tuesday with new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba seeking a mandate for his policies and for reforms after the…
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday instructed his Liberal Democratic Party to hold discussions on measures to ensure security in the Asian region. Ishiba, the ruling LDP's president, apparently had…