Domestic stability enabled Japan to take on an international leadership role. Those days may be over. The post A Weakened ...

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

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

Preliminary results show the LDP-Komeito coalition will fall short of the 233 seats needed for a majority in the Lower House.

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

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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is a self-confessed defense geek and train-lover whose snap election gamble backfired ...

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 ...

As the people in Japan vote in the country’s tightest elections in years, multiple polls hinted that the Ishiba-led LDP might ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba may find it challenging to form a government if the ruling coalition loses its majority ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba likes crafting model ships but his short tenure could come unstuck if the gamble of ...

The approval rate for Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's cabinet has dropped to 38.9 percent, while the disapproval rate rose to 57.3 percent, according to the latest poll released on Sunday by ...