Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party have effectively agreed to form a coalition government, ...

Anticipation grew on Monday that Sanae Takaichi will become Japan's first female premier, with the backing of the right-wing ...

Japan's Nikkei led Asia higher with a rise of 1.5% encouraged by news the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation ...

Sanae Takaichi is poised to break Japan’s political glass ceiling. But some worry she will maintain policies that have held ...

Japan’s Diet could elect a new PM, UK’s Labour will pick a deputy leader and Ireland set to get a new president ...

Japan’s Ishin opposition party held an executive meeting on Sunday as it mulled the possibility of joining forces with the ...

LDP's Sanae Takaichi needs to find coalition partners from opposition to become Japan's first female prime minister.

TOKYO — Japan's ruling party is set to sign a new coalition deal on Monday, paving the way for Sanae Takaichi to become the country's first woman prime minister, media reports said. Takaichi became ...

No Japanese Cabinet ministers visited the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo during the three-day autumn festival that ended ...

Newly re-elected Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva has reaffirmed the party's commitment to liberal democratic ...

With a vote on the next prime minister set for Tuesday, the new LDP president apparently took into account the possibility ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party have agreed to form a coalition government, setting the ...