The new Japanese leader is boosting defence spending, strengthening the military and even potentially revising Japan’s pacifist constitution.

After inheriting a party in crisis, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi led her LDP to a thumping snap-election win — but ...

Heightened verbal aggression in the current political tit-for-tat between China and the Philippines, China and Taiwan, and China and Japan are now a cultural feature of the world of 2026. These are ...

In South Korea-Japan relations, the male-female leadership combination of President Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Minister ...

The scale of LDP’s victory and the support received from a younger cohort of voters makes it possible to initiate constitutional amendments needed to accelerate Japan’s aim to be more self-reliant in ...

China had cause for concern the day Takaichi was elected as Japan’s first woman prime minister. With a stronger mandate, here ...

Never has it won as decisively as it did in a snap election on February 8th, when it took almost 70% of the seats in parliament’s powerful lower house. Takaichi Sanae, the triumphant prime minister, ...

When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called snap elections last month, it was a big gamble. Holding a winter election just four months into her tenure with no real policy record to run on?

Progress on corporate governance in Asia has been uneven in part because it has relied on the zeal of politicians and ...

A top Iranian security official traveled on Tuesday to Oman, the Mideast sultanate now mediating talks between Tehran and Washington over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program aimed at halting a ...