Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will pick its new leader on October 4, the party's election committee said ...

The jockeying for a new prime minister has begun as outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's beleaguered long-governing ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced Sunday that he will resign, following growing calls from within his party to ...

Japan’s ruling party faces a tough decision over its future as it searches for a new leader to replace outgoing Prime ...

Ishiba came into the prime ministership last year with the odds already stacked against him. The LDP was a fractured party ...

The former secretary-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Motegi Toshimitsu, officially announced his bid for ...

TOKYO: Sanae Takaichi, 64, former minister in charge of economic security, has decided to run in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election which will choose the successor to Prime Minister ...

The full-scale selection procedure may favour Sanae Takaichi, a veteran fiscal dove and right-winger who local media say has decided to run.

If the Democrats continue to push progressive ideology over bread-and-butter issues, they will only make polarization worse.

The Sanseito party, often noted for its right-wing policies, is also making efforts to attract liberal voters in Japan. How are the party's p･･･ ...