Koike's Tomin First Party scored a landslide win in recent elections in the capital, taking 79 seats to LDP's 23.

If current opinion polls are to be believed, this Sunday voters in Japan will return Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to office with an increased majority, putting the 63-year-old conservative on track ...

A decision by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to call a snap election appears to have paid off. Abe's ruling coalition has won a clear majority with more than two-thirds of Parliament's 465 ...

Prime Minister Thirty-four percent of Japanese plan to vote for Abe's conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) while 19 percent favour a party formed this week by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike ...

The dynamics, also, are somewhat different. In general, Koike shares the same nationalist, conservative policy stance as Abe. But like Cuomo, Koike is articulate and to the point.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike does not expect her new conservative party to pick a candidate for prime minister during the campaign for the Oct. 22 election, leaving the door open to eventually ...

Popular Governor Yuriko Koike's novice Tokyo Citizens First party and its allies - including the LDP's national-level coalition partner - won a landslide victory, taking 79 seats in Sunday's ...

Popular Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, whose fledgling conservative party poses a growing challenge to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc, agreed on Saturday to cooperate in next month's ...

The party, which is challenging Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition, also vowed to end nuclear power by 2030 amid public safety worries after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Sixty-four percent disapproved of Abe's handling of the virus outbreak in a survey by Sankei newspaper and Fuji News Network released on Monday, up 25.1 points from a late March poll.