Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election this month as his minority government ...

A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in ...

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he will step down in September, ending a three-year term marred by political scandals and paving the way for a new premier to address the ...

Campaigning for Japan's upper house election started Thursday, with unpopular Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba fighting to ...

Japan's exports fell for the first time in eight months in May, data showed on Wednesday, indicating that sweeping U.S. tariffs were threatening the country's fragile economic recovery. Japanese Prime ...

After less than a year in office, Shigeru Ishiba is already under pressure following an abysmal showing for his party in a ...

Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles, Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi, NATO Secretary ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday, where he announced his intention to step down. Pool/Getty Images 2024-08-14T09:30:57Z ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, bottom centre, accompanied by his new cabinet members in Tokyo, November 11, 2024 [AP Photo/Yoshikazu Tsuno]. Ishiba’s cabinet approved the 8.7 trillion ...

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Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will step down in September. Kishida will not seek re-election as the leader of the ruling LDP in party elections next month.

The Diet on Nov. 11 elected Shigeru Ishiba, president of the Liberal Democratic Party, as the 103rd prime minister of Japan in the first runoff vote in 30 years.