Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's administration will declare its intention to permanently shut down reactors by sometime in the 2030s, the Mainichi Shimbun reported, citing unnamed government sources.

Japan's upper house election seems set to rehash a decades-old debate on consumption tax, says Gearoid Reidy for Bloomberg ...

Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan chief Yoshihiko Noda heads to a meeting with party executives in Tokyo on April 25, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's major opposition party said ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, center right, answers questions from Yoshihiko Noda, center left, leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, during a parliamentary debate in Tokyo on ...

Tokyo, April 2 (Jiji Press)--Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, said Wednesday that his party will seek a parliamentary resolution to urge the ...

The leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Yoshihiko Noda, who served as prime minister in 2011 ... Asia for decades for newspapers and magazines and is the author of books on Korea, ...

Opposition leader Yoshihiko Noda has intensified efforts to gain cross-party support for his bid for the post of prime minister, but he is not likely to succeed. Tokyo (AsiaNews/Agencies ...

Yoshihiko Noda, head of the main opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, on Wednesday intensified his efforts to rally cross-party support in his bid to be chosen as the next ...

There is also a slim chance that a hotchpotch of fragmented opposition parties may coalesce around the leadership of former prime minister Yoshihiko Noda, 67, who now heads the CDP, to make up ...

The latest development is seen as a blow to the LDP, which has struggled to regain public trust despite its pledge to reform after a scandal involving off-the-book funds amassed ... expansion of party ...

That would have allowed Ishiba to meet his pledge, made in a book he published in August ... But the party's leader, Yoshihiko Noda, has ruled out the chance of forming a coalition with the ...