Asian shares were mostly higher Tuesday as Japan’s benchmark topped new highs after a historic election win for the nation’s first female prime minister. Japan’s benchmark ...

It was a risky gamble to call a snap election – her career was on the line. But now Japan’s Sanae Takaichi is basking in the strongest majority for a Japanese government since World War II.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s big election win paves the way for her ruling party to dominate the crucial lower ...

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), speaks during a press conference at the LDP ...

Stocks climbed on Monday as investors cheered a result seen as a mandate for the prime minister’s high-spending economic agenda.

A rally for global stock markets that began in Asia petered out by the time trading got to Wall Street. The S&P 500 slipped 0 ...

Japan has made history by electing its first female Prime Minister, and the markets are reacting enthusiastically. Sanae Takaichi's remarkable election success has secured her party a two-thirds ...

The Nikkei 225 index soared up to 5.7%, reaching a new record of 57,337.07, while the broader Topix index climbed as much as ...

Japan's first female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, brought the ruling Liberal Democratic Party its biggest-ever electoral victory, fueling her ambitions to pursue to a political agenda which she ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party captured a two-thirds supermajority in the 465-seat lower house, public broadcaster NHK reported.

Gift Nifty was trading around 25,947 level, a premium of nearly 212 points from the Nifty futures' previous close, indicating ...