Heavyweights clash as election of hawkish PM Sanae Takaichi and US policy unpredictability change calculus in region ...

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

Conservatives urge Ishiba to wait until his domestic political position stabilises, while others say avoiding Trump could ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba recently commented on issues including the Japan-US relations after stepping ...

Social media users made sarcastic remarks about the situation and joked that it was merely a tradition for the MPs to doze ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday he had decided to resign, ushering in a potentially lengthy period of policy paralysis at a shaky moment for the world’s fourth-largest economy.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2025. Credit - Toru Hanai—POOL/AFP/Getty Images Less than a year after taking office, Japanese Prime Minister ...

Japan's parliament on Tuesday elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister, and she ...

TOKYO: Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants to revive the world's number four economy by investing in 17 key areas ...

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 ...