Japan’s ruling party named Daishiro Yamagiwa as the new chairman of its group that promotes semiconductors, as it sets up a ...

Whether on the left or the right, sitting governments around the world have been drubbed this year by disgruntled voters.

Yamagiwa, who formerly served as economic revitalization minister, replaces Akira Amari, a Liberal Democratic Party ...

The approval rating for the cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba rose 7.9 percentage points to 40.0 percent, a ...

You may swoon or spit but there is no way that Japan can ignore former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Vocal critics called him a ...

Likewise, Japanese voters in October punished the Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed the country nearly without ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba reportedly didn't get meeting he sought with US president-elect Donald Trump, who though met with Argentina's President Javier Milei last week. Observers said ...

The latest NHK opinion poll shows that the approval rate for Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru's Cabinet stands at 41 percent.

Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, the wife of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s brother has passed away at the age of 101. The Princess ...

Unlike in other democracies this year, Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party bucked the trend of electoral defeat but the Ishiba ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Post strike and trade talks amid ...