Japan’s first female leader needs to fulfill pledges to cut taxes and increase spending without spooking bond investors.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won 315 seats in weekend snap elections, ...

The Centrist Reform Alliance secured just 49 seats in Sunday's House of Representatives election, the lowest total for a main ...

In this election, Japanese online communities exerted a special influence on Takaichi and the LDP. In particular, the influence of Japanese netizens who express extremely conservative, xenophobic and ...

Abolishing the consumption tax on food items and revising the Constitution will take time, which may prove challenging for a ...

Undeterred by Beijing’s economic retaliation for Sanae Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks, voters endorsed the prime minister’s ...

The Diet, Japan's parliament, will hold a special session from Feb. 18 through July 17, Hiroshi Kajiyama, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Diet affairs chief, said Tuesday. Kajiyama unveiled the ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday congratulated Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for her “historic” election ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's election victory is handing Chinese leader Xi Jinping a dilemma: Engage with Japan's most ...

Sunday’s House of Representatives election saw the Liberal Democratic Party achieve a landslide victory, securing its largest number of seats since the end of World War II, while the opposition ended ...

The Democratic Party for the People and Sanseito each increased their number of seats in the House of Representatives ...

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