Seiji Maehara, 61, a veteran lawmaker who served as head of the defunct Democratic Party of Japan, told a news conference that he will form a new political party for realizing a free education ...

Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) appointed party-hopping lawmaker Seiji Maehara to a key post, raising alarms both within and outside the second-largest opposition party. Maehara was named ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday came under fire for his distribution of gift vouchers worth 100,000 yen ...

Free high school education is Nippon Ishin no Kai’s signature policy, and party co-leader Seiji Maehara is pushing for it hard in budget committee hearings. Though the effort pits him against ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, 54, was re-elected as leader of the opposition Democratic Party for the People (DPP) after defeating his only rival, Seiji Maehara, 61, the party’s acting head. But with ...

Tamaki defeated his only challenger, acting leader Seiji Maehara, by a large margin. The election result indicates broad support within the party for Tamaki’s political agenda and strategy ...

He was responding to a question from Seiji Maehara, co-representative of Nippon Ishin, which has been calling for free high school education. It was the first time for the prime minister to state ...

Former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, a veteran opposition lawmaker, will also be a member of the group.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday came under fire following revelations that his office handed out gift ...

Nippon Ishin co-leader Seiji Maehara said that the party has decided to vote in favor of the government's fiscal 2025 budget, based on an agreement with the ruling coalition to modify it.

“We’ll make a decision on the budget based on whether our policy goals can all be realised,” Seiji Maehara, the co-leader of the Osaka-based party, said in an interview with Bloomber ...