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

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 ...

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

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's gamble on snap elections has backfired. He promised to carry out strict reforms within the longtime ruling LDP after a political scandal clouded the party's ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba intends to maintain government control following the Liberal Democratic Party's loss ...

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

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

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

"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 ...

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