TOKYO – Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi savoured an election landslide Monday, with her ruling party projected to have won a two-thirds majority in...
TOKYO—Japan got its first woman prime minister on Tuesday after Sanae Takaichi, a China hawk and social conservative, forged an 11th-hour coalition deal.
Japan’s fifth...
TOKYO – The leadership contest for Japan’s ruling party kicked off on Monday, with five candidates vying to become the country’s fourth prime minister...
“Never in the post-martial law years have the people become so polarized, with emotions so high”
NEVER to my recollection have mid-term elections been so...
TOKYO—Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is set to lose its majority in the House of Representatives after Sunday's general election, a Kyodo exit poll...
Japanese ruling party leader Shigeru Ishiba was elected prime minister in parliament on Tuesday, succeeding Fumio Kishida to take charge of the country at...
