By Leika Kihara TOKYO, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's decision to call a snap general election on February 8 to seek voter backing for her reflationist policies pushed bond yields to multi-decade highs,

The Japanese legislature, known as the Diet, is set to meet for an extraordinary session to vote for the next prime minister. The vote on Tuesday follows the collapse of a 26-year-old partnership earlier this month between the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ...

Japan's new opposition party, the Centrist Reform Alliance, unveiled its party platform on Monday with pledges to ease economic press

Markets can only ignore the actions of a mad king like Trump for so long, and it's Japan of all places showing how things are breaking.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan's unstable political landscape is expected to cast doubt over its diplomatic commitments and could hinder progress in its trilateral summit with China and South Korea, analysts ...

Sanae Takaichi became the leader of Japan's LDP last week - Copyright POOL/AFP Yuichi YAMAZAKI Sanae Takaichi became the leader of Japan's LDP last week - Copyright ...

HONG KONG, Oct 14 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The odds of Sanae Takaichi roiling Japan's markets with her hardline conservative agenda have just lengthened. Days after becoming the new leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, her decision to shrug off ...

(Philip FONG/AFP/AFP) After Sanae Takaichi took office as Japan's first woman prime minister, AFP spoke to some of her younger counterparts who called it a symbolic victory. The three local councillors anticipate Takaichi's win will do little to shift the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has unearthed long ...

Komeito pact marks a ‘turning point’ in Japanese politics that could finally end the LDP’s decades-long grip, analysts say.