Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced he will step down following growing calls from his party to take ...

The embattled leader is trying to head off a deep split in his party over a right-wing political surge, a weakened economy ...

An unlikely premier who vowed to make Japan "smile again", Ishiba won the Liberal Democratic Party leadership election on his ...

The resignation came one day before his Liberal Democratic Party was to decide whether to hold an early leadership election.

Shigeru Ishiba's resignation ushers in a potentially lengthy period of policy uncertainty at a shaky moment for the world's ...

Ishiba has been in power for less than a year, but faced calls to resign from the right-wing faction of his own party after a ...

The move is seen as an attempt to avoid a split within his governing Liberal Democratic Party, which lost its upper house ...

Shigeru Ishiba likes the nitty-gritty of policy and geeky pursuit of making military models, but his dream job as Japanese ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday he had decided to resign, ushering in a potentially lengthy period of ...

Ishiba had faced calls for his resignation after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party failed to secure a majority in the lower ...