Ishiba has critiqued current Prime Minister Takaichi for her Taiwan remarks, nuclear policy, and rice vouchers.

Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced his decision to step down, less than two months after his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost its majority in the country’s upper house election.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has bowed to weeks of pressure from within his party and announced his resignation, less than a year after taking office. His departure plunges Japan back into ...

The government is considering its largest-ever initial budget of over 120 trillion yen ($775 billion) for the next fiscal ...

Former Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba talks about Japan’s foreign policy during a recent program of ABEMA. Photo: ...

Shigeru Ishiba likes the nitty-gritty of policy and geeky pursuit of making military models, but his dream job as Japanese prime minister crumbled Sunday. Ishiba said he had decided to step down, ...

Philip Fong / AP Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed his intention on Sunday to step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July’s ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Shigeru Ishiba took over Japan's ruling party promising to revive it from scandal. Less than a year later he is stepping down as prime minister after three electoral losses shook the ...

Prime minister Shigeru Ishiba’s political future hangs in the balance after his ruling coalition suffered a significant setback in Japan’s upper house elections, losing its majority and plunging the ...

TOKYO — Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed his intention on Sunday to step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July's ...