Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s request to North Korea for a summit with its leader, Kim Jong Un, appears likely to be ...

New Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is unlikely to bring meaningful party reforms unless the LDP breaks free of factional party dynamics and funding scandals.

Takaichi, 64, leader of the struggling Liberal Democratic Party, succeeds Shigeru Ishiba, who resigned following two major ...

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

This dissolution, which came later in the afternoon and just eight days after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba took office, ...

TOKYO — Japan’s parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner ...

After a year in office, Shigeru Ishiba resigned as Japan’s prime minister following the LDP–Komeito coalition’s major electoral defeats. Sanae Takaichi emerged victorious from the LDP presidential ...

Oct. 15 (UPI) --The Japanese Diet is scheduled to vote on the nation's next prime minister on Tuesday, which has political parties angling to gain support for their preferred candidates. Sanae ...

Japan's parliament has elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister. Takaichi, the head of the struggling Liberal Democratic Party, replaces Shigeru Ishiba, ...

Sanae Takaichi was named Japan's first woman prime minister Tuesday, with the social conservative saying she wanted "candid discussions" with US President Donald Trump just days ahead of his visit to ...