Japan is "heading for a time of political instability," Shimada Yukiko said on Japan's public broadcaster NHK. The first ...

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 ...

Roughly 86% of economists polled by Reuters expect the central bank to leave its rates unchanged when it announces its ...

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’s long-reigning coalition lost a majority in the parliamentary election, underscoring ...

The Liberal Democratic Party, headed by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, has lost majority in the elections — a first in 15 ...

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

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

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

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

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) failed to retain a single-party majority in the House of Representatives election ...