Japan’s centre-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has governed the country almost without interruption since the end of World War II, lost its majority in the country’s upper house over the ...

the less powerful of Japan's two-chamber parliament. The surge in the party's popularity came amid the backdrop of a historic loss by the long-governing conservative coalition of Prime Minister ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a reckoning from voters on ... "Ishiba may need to step down," Toru Yoshida, a politics professor at Doshisha University, told AFP. Japan could "step into ...