Japan has a female candidate among the frontrunners to become prime minister in a vote this month, raising the possibility ...

Japan will have a new leader after outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s governing Liberal Democratic Party holds a vote on ...

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As of October last year, only 10.8% of lawmakers in Japan’s more powerful lower house were women ... “Having the opinions of female leaders reflected in the decision-making process will ...

He wants to allow an option of keeping separate surnames which is supported by the country’s powerful business ... one for each of Japan’s prefectures. Once a new LDP leader is elected ...

This time, Japan is working with technology leaders in the United States and other countries — a collaborative approach that decades earlier would have been unthinkable. But even as Tokyo is ...

When Fumio Kishida declared earlier this month that he would not seek re-election as leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal ... in which members of one of its powerful factions were accused of failing ...

Having fled Peru in 2000 amid an unfolding corruption scandal, he spent several years in his parents’ homeland of Japan — resigning ... Kenji Fujimori and his powerful voting bloc to stave ...

Japan and other new partners. But the landlocked country remains economically dependent on its two much larger and more powerful neighbors, Russia and China. The ICC has accused Putin of being ...

Japan and other new partners. But the landlocked country remains economically dependent on its two much larger and more powerful neighbors, Russia and China. The ICC has accused Putin of being ...

An exceptionally powerful leader vowing to defy his critics ... but federal judges are elected by the country’s Parliament. In Japan, Supreme Court justices are selected by the government ...