Faced with right-wing attacks amid a growing national profile, Japan’s Kurds could benefit from simple, pragmatic ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election this month as his minority government ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s goal is a simple majority. Half of the 248 seats for six-year terms in the upper ...

Though the LDP is not currently facing any scandals, the party may have lost support due to a buildup of distrust toward its political stance and policies.

This was because the LDP refused to accede to the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and other opposition parties' demands that these donations be banned in principle, insisting instead that ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election was a critical test for Ishiba’s leadership and his party, and the LDP failed it.

TOKYO -- Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will not submit its own bill on introducing a selective separate surname system for married couples during the current Diet session, several ...

(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s ruling party named Daishiro Yamagiwa as the new chairman of its group that promotes semiconductors, as it sets up a new mechanism to boost funding for the key industry ...

Japan's LDP not only lost its majority after the 27 October House of Representatives election, but cannot even form a majority government with its junior coalition partner, Komeito. Meanwhile, Japan's ...

Shigeru Ishiba, Japan's prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), arrives for a news conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024.

Japan's Prime Minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Shigeru Ishiba places a pin on the name of a candidate who won the lower house election, at the LDP headquarters, Oct 27 ...

In a significant political upset, Japan's Liberal Democratic Party coalition failed to secure the 233 seats required to maintain its majority in the country's lower house in Sunday's general election.