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

Some are convinced that Japan’s deal with the US was worth the effort. Trump’s visit to Tokyo, in which he was effusive in ...

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

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s long-governing Liberal Democratic Party will choose a new leader on Saturday to replace Prime Minister ...

Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru on Sunday announced he would resign after little more than a year in office, taking responsibility for two election losses during his tenure that saw the ruling Liberal ...

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

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.

Five months ago, just after President Donald Trump gave a speech in the Mon Valley announcing the finalization of the deal ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed his intention on Sunday to step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for its big loss in the July ...

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

TOKYO - Less than a week into her tenure as Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi positioned herself to become ...