Japan's parliament elected former Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda as the new prime minister on Tuesday — the country's sixth leader in five years. A fiscal conservative, Noda faces a host of ...

Noda, in office a year, won 818 points out of a total of 1,231 points in the vote, suggesting the ruling Democratic Party of Japan has rallied around him even as his approval rating has fallen ...

Noda will become Japan’s sixth prime minister in five years, a dismal track record of turnover that has done little to help the country tackle its problems and recover some of the confidence it ...

Noda, in office a year, won 818 points out of a total of 1,231 points, suggesting the ruling Democratic Party of Japan has rallied around him even as his approval rating has fallen below 30 per cent.

Japan's Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L), who was chosen as the new leader of Japan's ruling Democratic Party, attends a news conference after the party's leadership vote in Tokyo August 29, 2011.

Noda, 54, garnered 215 ballots out of 392 valid votes on Monday in the leadership race, compared with 177 votes for Economy Minister Banri Kaieda, who is backed by DPJ powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa ...

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Friday a planned second supplementary budget for reconstruction following the March 11 earthquake will be funded by surplus money from past budgets.