TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday he will stay in office to tackle challenges such as rising prices and high U.S. tariffs after a weekend election defeat left his ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was clinging on Monday even after his coalition disastrously lost its upper house majority, as painful new US tariffs loom. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), ...

The Sanseito party has unusual origins, as party leader Sohei Kamiya founded the group in 2020 by gathering young nationalist ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's ruling coalition has lost its majority in the 248-seat upper house following Sunday's crucial parliamentary election, deepening political instability in the ...

We wrote about the confusion the redistricting push caused last week. The state’s Democrats expressed anger that a special session called in the wake of the disaster would probably be consumed with a ...

A South Korean special counsel team said Monday that it has summoned former President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning over ...

The euro rose against a weaker dollar as investors assessed the latest developments in U.S.-EU trade talks and look ahead to Thursday’s ECB decision.

Sohei Kamiya is a former supermarket manager and an English teacher. However, his present-day life has been defined by ...

Japan's government was delivered a stinging blow in elections for the National Diet's upper house on Sunday, losing control ...

Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner Komeito were short three seats to maintain ...

All told, Japan’s veneer of exceptionality is cracking. It’s no longer immune to the political and economic disillusionment sweeping the West. What was once the model of deflationary stability and ...