Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Friday he won't run for leadership of the governing party at the end of this month, paving the way for a new Japanese leader after just a year in office.

Yoshihide Suga was voted in as Japan’s next prime minister on Wednesday, September 16, by parliament’s lower house. Mr Suga, 71, will be replacing Shinzo Abe in the top job after he recently ...

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Wednesday donated a religious offering to a Tokyo shrine viewed by China and both Koreas as a symbol of wartime aggression, though he avoided a visit.