Japan's ruling party leadership race, which will determine who becomes next prime minister, could complicate the central bank ...

Japan's new prime minister will be formally elected by parliament on October 1 following next week's leadership contest, a ...

Japan has a female candidate among the frontrunners to become prime minister in a vote this month, raising the possibility ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's fund management body donated a total of 100 million yen (approx. $700,000) to the Liberal ...

Japan will soon have a new prime minister to replace Fumio Kishida, who resigned from his post in mid-August. The ruling ...

The pledge by 43-year-old Shinjiro Koizumi, the youngest candidate in the running to be Japan's next prime minister, to hold ...

The pledge by 43-year-old Shinjiro Koizumi, the youngest candidate in the running to be Japan's next prime minister, to hold ...

All four presidential candidates of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan support legalizing same-sex marriage, a ...

Politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party showed mixed reactions to an Asahi Shimbun article about a 2013 meeting ...

Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi is viewed by 27.7 percent of Liberal Democratic Party supporters as most ...

Nine candidates running in the leadership election of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a record number under the ...

Regional revitalization, work-life balance and the clarification of the Self-Defense Forces' position in the Constitution ...