Japan's far-right Sanseito party has emerged as a political force after securing a record number of seats in the recent upper ...

On any list of central bankers dying to get off this crazy thing called 2025, Japan’s Kazuo Ueda deserves a spot at the very ...

A postelection survey conducted by Kyodo News showed Friday that 56.4 percent of House of Councillors members do not favor a ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's resignation has become unavoidable. The ruling coalition has now suffered crushing defeats in ...

Kamiya won Sanseito’s first upper house seat in 2022. During the campaign, he published a pamphlet that claimed Jewish ...

Fears of a ‘far-right’ government have sparked an unlikely online campaign, even among political opponents, urging Shigeru ...

The minority government of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is under pressure to quickly decide on how to respond to the ...

Like Ishiba’s political future, Japan's parliamentary politics is also facing uncertainty, particularly its Cabinet system.

The prospect of someone as premier with hawkish views on Japanese history and China has fuelled online calls for the moderate ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s future is uncertain, but an unlikely campaign for him to stay was growing online ...

There were two big losers in Sunday’s Upper House elections.The biggest loser was the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which, ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday he wants to oversee the "steady" implementation of a recently clinched trade deal ...