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

Analysts are divided on whether Shigeru Ishiba will still be prime minister and LDP leader ahead of the upper house elections ...

Japan's reflationist advocates of expansionary fiscal policy are making a comeback in economic decision-making with some hand ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

Japans economic landscape is shifting as reflationist advocates of expansionary fiscal policy regain influence under Prime ...

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

Shigeru Ishiba said he had decided to step down, following calls for him to take responsibility for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's poor performance in upper house elections in July Shigeru ...

TOKYO — 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 ...