Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday he told U.S. President Donald Trump in a telephone call that his tariff ...

Some opposition leaders are urging the prime minister to rally his party around a strategy before speaking with the U.S.

Japanese lawmakers elected to the House of Representatives in the general election last October had an average of 26.85 million yen ($183,600) in declarable financial assets and real estate, the ...

A crisis looms for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. In the House of Representatives election last October, the Liberal ...

Calls are growing in Japan for a major economic stimulus package including a consumption tax cut to cushion the blow to the ...

The Japanese government passed a record defense budget in 2024, in line with its commitment to increase its defense spending ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru ... leader of the Democratic Party for the People, have called for the prime minister to explain himself at the Political Ethics Review Committee in the House of ...

The Osaka High Court has become the fifth high court in Japan to rule that current laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are unconstitutional, but lawmakers remain slow to respond.

For an already-unpopular administration, the return of party members implicated in a slush funds scandal will create further ...

Despite the constraints of Article 9 of its pacifist Constitution, Tokyo has found creative ways to support ASEAN’s defense ...

Six months into office, the odds appear stacked against Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Yet he has enjoyed what political ...

Six months into office, the odds appear stacked against Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Yet he has enjoyed what political observers describe as "weird" political stability, leaving them guessing ...