When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called snap elections last month, it was a big gamble. Holding a winter election ...

A more confident Tokyo complicates Beijing’s preferred regional order. For many of Asia’s middle powers, that makes Japan an appealing counterweight.

Diet debates on Constitutional revision are likely to begin after the Liberal Democratic Party gained 316 seats in the House ...

Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi: The former heavy metal drummer who sleeps two hours a night - Conservative leader took ...

Takaichi just won a historic mandate. But that means the Japanese people are expecting results – and fast. Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae attends the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Gyeongju ...

The U.S. dollar fell for ‌a fourth straight session and the yen extended its rally, in a potential shift in investor thinking ...

Japan's snap election in February 2026 saw opposition parties scrambling for votes in a poll dominated by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), but a video of the founder of ...

China demands "concrete actions" and a retraction of comments on Taiwan from Japan's PM Sanae Takaichi before resuming bilateral diplomatic dialogue.

Ms Takaichi bet that her LDP party, together with its new partner, the Japan Innovation Party, would secure a majority in the ...

The scale of LDP’s victory and the support received from a younger cohort of voters makes it possible to initiate constitutional amendments needed to accelerate Japan’s aim to be more self-reliant in ...