(AP Photo/Hiro Komae) Japan's Prime Minister and head of the governing Liberal Democratic Party Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a campaigning for a parliamentary election in Tokyo, Japan, Saturday ...

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a small opposition party now able to wield outsized political influence, had long puzzled over ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, whom lawmakers voted to keep in office Monday despite his party’s dismal recent election showing, has vowed to further strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has survived a runoff vote against the opposition but will face turmoil ahead amid ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has pledged to take tougher measures against misuse of political funds after he was ...

Shigeru Ishiba's scandal-tarnished coalition lost its parliamentary majority in a lower house election late last month.

Parliament voted Monday to stick with Mr. Ishiba, who will lead a minority government after his party suffered heavy losses in an election last month.

Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, speaks with the press in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Oct. 28, 2024. (Mainichi/Mimi Niimiya) TOKYO -- Yoshihiko Noda, leader of ...

Mitsumu Ejiri, assistant professor at Japan's National Institute of Polar Research, has been appointed the first female leader of the wintering team of a Japanese Antarctic research expedition.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday acknowledged voter dissatisfaction and pledged significant reforms within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) after the party faced a ...