With about a quarter of all LDP lawmakers having not decided who to back in the party's presidential election, the race is still fluid.

Japanese agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi is leading in support from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's lawmakers in the party leadership race, a Jiji Press survey has suggested. Koizumi has s ...

There is increasing political and public support in Japan for counterstrike capabilities as a deterrent. But there’s a misleading perception that oversimplifies the issue, says political scientist ...

Tobias Harris is the founder of Japan Foresight. He is the author of "The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan." ...

Super-long JGB yields have been falling from historic highs scaled earlier this month as concerns over Japan's fiscal outlook ...

Yet as the short and largely inconsequential tenures of numerous recent Japanese prime ministers suggests, it will not be easy for Koizumi or Takaichi to make a more substantive impact. Japan is in ...

The five candidates vying for the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party made a noticeable shift toward tax cuts, ...

Frontrunner Sanae Takaichi has broken with the ruling LDP's tightfisted orthodoxy by calling for government spending to boost ...

Whoever emerges as leader in the coming election within the Liberal Democratic Party will decide whether Japan will take a ...

A survey conducted by the Nara Deer Preservation Foundation on 15 and 16 July this year recorded 1,465 deer in the park, ...

Who will be the next prime minister of Japan? Contenders Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, former Economic Security Ministers Sanae.

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is increasingly expected to raise its key interest rate at the October policy board meeting, as ...