The following are key campaign pledges made by major Japanese political parties for the House of Representatives election on ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dissolved the lower house of parliament on Friday, paving the way for an early ...

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 ...

Japanese Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party leader Takaichi Sanae / We have pledged to make Japan strong and ...

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

By moving early, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi intends to consolidate her leadership, gain popular endorsement for her fiscal and security policies, and strengthen her party’s legislative power. Yet t ...

Sanae Takaichi became Japan's first female prime minister Tuesday. Her election comes at a time of upheaval in Japanese politics. Japan's lawmakers just elected the country's first woman prime ...

(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 ...

Japan enters 2026 confronting a convergence of political, economic and demographic pressures that mark a decisive shift in its post-war governance model. The 2024 Lower House and 2025 Upper House ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

'I love Tokyo. If I had to eat only in one city for the rest of my life, Tokyo would be it,' Anthony Bourdain once said.