Japan's opposition party leaders agreed Thursday they will strip the ruling bloc of their majority control of the powerful ...

New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba took just days following his appointment to wade into the biggest question facing ...

He is frank about Japan’s wartime misdeeds, and will thus help to nurture the vital but tetchy relationship with South Korea.

At least six people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in Beirut overnight, Lebanon’s Health ...

In Asia, Japan +2%. Hong Kong -1.5%. China closed. India -2.1%. In Europe, at midday, London +0.3%. Paris -0.7%. Frankfurt -0 ...

Only a formal regional military alliance can prevent war in the region, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said recently.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will propose a new happiness index during his first parliamentary policy speech on ...

Japanese shares rallied Thursday as the yen extended losses after the country's new prime minister dampened interest rate ...

The slush funds scandal involving factions of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that has rocked Japan's political ...

Japan’s Nikkei 225 surged 2.57% as the yen weakened and PM Ishiba signaled no rate hikes, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped ...

Japan’s new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is pledging to stick to the vital Japan-U.S. alliance while calling for it to be ...

Four days after his ascension to party leader, he obtained the ultimate prize on October 1: becoming the prime minister of ...