Gambling in a bid for a stronger mandate, Japan’s new prime minister called a general election a year before he needed to, ...

Japan's new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, was facing a major electoral setback on Sunday as projections indicated his ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday signaled that he intends to continue running the government after his ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed to stay in office despite his party's ruling coalition falling short of a ...

"The LDP suffered a crushing defeat," said Takeshi Minami, chief economist at Norinchukin Research Institute, who sees a ...

Freshly named Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will likely have to form a new coalition government after his ruling party took a ...

Ishiba's decision to call an election was to 'start afresh as a fair, just and sincere party' but his rhetoric for reform was ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has promised to stay in office despite his gamble on snap elections having backfired.

An election meant to deliver greater certainty has yielded anything but. The Liberal Democratic Party lost its parliamentary ...

In a significant political upset, Japan's Liberal Democratic Party coalition failed to secure the 233 seats required to ...

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party is looking to make policy deals short of expanding its ruling coalition after the ruling ...

Analysts are divided on whether Shigeru Ishiba may still be prime minister and the LDP leader ahead of the upper house ...