Japan's Ishin party joins political establishment it vowed to fight

TOKYO (Reuters) -Formed in 2010 to shake up Japan's political establishment and loosen Tokyo's administrative stranglehold, ...

Japan's first female leader is an ultraconservative star from a male-dominated party

Sanae Takaichi has become Japan's first female prime minister, a significant milestone in the country's male-dominated ...

Can Japan’s New Leader Afford to Go Hard on Immigration?

Analysts are divided on whether Sanae Takaichi’s agenda will be as hardline in practice as her campaign rhetoric on ...

Japan’s ruling party is in crisis as voters swing to right-wing rivals. Can a new leader save it?

And while the LDP has ruled Japan almost continuously for the last 30 years, it’s now in a precarious position as it prepares ...

Japan's Takaichi woos right-leaning party to secure premiership

Sanae Takaichi, the newly-elected head of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, held talks about a possible coalition with ...
Bangkok Post on MSN

Japan ruling party proposes higher departure tax for international travellers

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday called for hiking the departure tax from the current 1,000 yen (215 baht) per person, hoping to use the increased revenue to address challenges ...
The Chosun Ilbo on MSN

Liberal Democratic, Japan Innovation Parties Form Coalition for Takaichi

Takaichi Sanae, head of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and Yoshimura Hirofumi, representative of the Japan ...

LDP-Japan Innovation Party marriage of convenience may face rocky future

Following the historic coalition deal between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party, unease is growing within b ...