In a global year of elections, Japan’s long-serving Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has suffered its second-worst result on record. The snap poll on October 27 was intended to secure the mandate ...

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed almost continuously ... and one of the world’s most important economies faces a period of instability until upper house elections next ...

the outcome of the leadership race looks set to define the direction of the governing party and Japanese politics for years to come. Kishida said it was important for the party to have ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba appears to be trying to keep his party rivals in check as he wrestles with the US over ...

Japan's political parties are scrambling for ways to capitalize ... quadrupled its seats to hold the balance of power in the all-important Lower House. Motohiko Saito, who had lost his job as ...

“I believe it is important to have the new administration ... The LDP has had a nearly unbroken tenure governing Japan since World War II. The party members may have seen Ishiba’s more ...

New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba opened his first policy speech in office Friday by expressing deep regrets over the governing party's slush funds scandal that dogged his predecessor.

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Ishiba, 67, on Friday clinched the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ... many Japanese policymakers and analysts on edge about what it would mean for America’s most important ...