Japanese social media was quick to point out that PM Shigeru Ishiba appeared to doze off during Monday’s vote in parliament ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s ...

Mr. Taniguchi, who was a special adviser to the cabinet of Shinzo Abe when he was prime minister of Japan, wrote from Tokyo. The political dominance of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party has been ...

Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru says he will reform the Liberal Democratic Party after the country's parliament voted ...

His Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition will need the backing of at least one opposition party.

via REUTERS The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is increasingly unpopular with ... The Liberal Democrats have ruled Japan almost incessantly over recent decades. They are credited with leading ...

Economic malaise was the biggest factor in the devastating loss handed to Japan's ruling coalition last month.

The Japanese parliament on Monday re-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Shigeru Ishiba as prime minister in a rare runoff vote after the ruling LDP lost its majority in the lower legislative ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has pledged to take tougher measures against misuse of political funds after he was ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has survived a runoff vote against the opposition but will face turmoil ahead amid ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, the head of the Japanese opposition party that has emerged as kingmaker as lawmakers select the next prime ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a parliament vote on Monday that is expected to keep him in the job, but with a ...