At around sunrise yesterday, “he approached the headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party in a vehicle ... violence,” the prime minister said. Japan will hold a general election on Oct ...

Read full article: SKY 10 LIVE: Boat erupts in flames in Fort Lauderdale Ygremerley Junior Murat. TOKYO – Japan's embattled Prime Minister Fumio Kishida surprised the country Wednesday by ...

That’s because the party, which has had a stranglehold on power in Japan since 1955, easily dominates a fractured, weak opposition, which has only ruled twice, and briefly, during that time.

SEOUL — Japan’s ruling party on Sunday lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in 15 years, a stunning upset that threatens the future of the new prime minister and marks the ...

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed almost continuously since 1955, has lost its parliamentary majority in the powerful lower house for the first time in 15 years. Public anger ...

By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo Japan’s governing party lost its majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, as voters delivered an emphatic rejection of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan’s new political kingmaker is pushing for a historic change to the country’s tax law as the price ...

A former model and newscaster, she was elected to parliament in 2004 and served as administrative reform minister in the government led by the now-defunct Democratic Party of Japan. Attacks on ...