Philip Fong / 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 a historic defeat in July’s parliamentary election, Japan’s NHK public ...

The cabinet of Japan Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has approved a plan to combat the rising tide of online gambling and addiction.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Thursday that Takaichi made provocative remarks on Taiwan, which imply the possibility of armed intervention in the Taiwan Straits during a Diet session. Despite China's serious démarches and protests, she still refused to change course and take back what she had said.

This dissolution, which came later in the afternoon and just eight days after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba took office, marks the shortest interval between a prime minister's inauguration and a lower house dissolution in Japan's postwar history.

Conservatives urge Ishiba to wait until his domestic political position stabilises, while others say avoiding Trump could pose greater risks Japanese conservatives are urging Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to delay his planned meeting with US president-elect Donald Trump,

Shigeru Ishiba likes the nitty-gritty of policy and geeky pursuit of making military models, but his dream job as Japanese prime minister crumbled Sunday. Ishiba said he had decided to step down, following calls for him to take responsibility for the ...

Sept. 7 (UPI) --Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced his resignation Sunday to avoid a split of his Liberal Democratic Party after recent election defeats. "Today, I have decided resign from the position of President of Liberal Democratic Party ...

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 parliamentary election, Japanese television reported. Ishiba, who took office in October, has resisted demands from mostly rightwing opponents within his own party for more than a month.