The conditions appear ideal for Shigeru Ishiba to make another run for president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and thus the prime minister’s post. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, front row, poses for a photo at an event to promote the 2025 World Exposition at his Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on April 3, 2025 ...

Shigeru Ishiba came across as having little new ... made during his campaign for leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, to revise the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA).

TOKYO -- Facing a widening backlash over his office's distribution of gift vouchers to rookie Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ... of my long career, people ...

He is taking heat over revelations that he had handed out gift certificates to rookie lawmakers. Read more at ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba called for solidarity within his Liberal Democratic Party to capture two key elections this summer despite the ruling coalition’s loss of a Lower House majority the ...

It’s quite clear that Shigeru ... his long-standing beliefs from interest rates to the yen to foreign policy. Iconoclastic? Hardly, as Ishiba adopts virtually all the Liberal Democratic Party ...

After failing in his own attempt, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba instructed his Cabinet ... secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, that “all means available must be mobilized ...

(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s parliament passed an initial budget after multiple revisions, easing some of the pressure on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ... since the Liberal Democratic Party’s ...