Photo: Nathan Howard/Getty Images/Paul Sancya/AP/Mike Segar/Reuters As if the world weren’t already facing enough electoral quakes this year, Japanese voters on Sunday ousted their ruling party ...

Now, the Liberal Democrats — the political party that had ... share prices of major Japanese companies.Credit...Richard A. Brooks/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images “As the country looks ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty ...

The sudden return of political ... his stint as Japanese leader. The LDP—and its coalition partner Komeito—are now scrambling, desperately, for a lifeline from a third party to hold on to ...

Image Voting on Sunday in Tokyo. Many Japanese are frustrated by a sense that all of their political options are uninspiring and that the governing party is complacent.Credit...Kim Kyung-Hoon ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's agriculture minister resigned Wednesday because of political fallout over recent ... voluntarily by Wednesday afternoon. Party leaders plan to further grill Ishiba at ...

A national election nears. Will a political party show up that will not lead Japan into the "low birth rate trap?" ("Yoroku" is a front-page column in the Mainichi Shimbun.) ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's agriculture minister was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over ... Sunday for the Liberal Democratic Party, which leads a struggling minority government.