TOKYO: The Japanese government will compile a comprehensive set of measures to address issues related to foreign residents ...

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

Japan's Komeito quit the ruling coalition on Friday, dealing a blow to new Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi's ...

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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday her government will consider cooperating with the United States in developing ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s long-governing Liberal Democratic Party will choose a new leader on Saturday to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, but the winner must quickly restore political stability and ...

Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru on Sunday announced he would resign after little more than a year in office, taking responsibility for two election losses during his tenure that saw the ruling Liberal ...

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

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

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 ...

Five months ago, just after President Donald Trump gave a speech in the Mon Valley announcing the finalization of the deal ...