The trial of the accused killer of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was to begin Tuesday. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, goes to court ...

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, was arrested at the scene of the shooting in July 2022 after allegedly firing at Abe with a homemade ...

Here’s how the LDP leader remade Japan’s ruling coalition to become the country’s first female Prime Minister.

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

Traders in the Japanese government bond market are on high alert Tuesday for any sign that President Donald Trump will ...

Sanseito submitted a bill to the Upper House on Oct. 27 for legal amendments to criminally punish acts of desecrating or ...

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

Despite Prime Minister Takaichi’s immigration stance, some doubt she’ll go far enough to satisfy their demands.

Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi — a Thatcher-inspired conservative with heavy metal tastes and a passion ...

Formed in 2010 to shake up Japan's political establishment and loosen Tokyo's administrative stranglehold, the Japan ...

Former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi is poised to become Japan's first female prime minister after winning the ...

Ms Takaichi, an ultra-conservative who on Tuesday became Japan’s first female prime minister, had promised to model her ...