The election will be a tough test on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s handling of economic woes at home and global challenges ...

The opposition party is looking to raise its seat count in the chamber to 21, which would enable it to independently submit ...

Donald Trump is pressuring Tokyo to buy Californian rice, as a national shortage exposes the country’s deep-rooted resistance ...

From left, Democratic Party of Japan President Yoshihiko Noda, Japan's Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party President ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday defended his party's plan to distribute cash handouts as a quick way to help households struggling with rising prices as he sought to deflect opposition ...

The party’s first-ever seats in the Tokyo legislature come amid scrutiny over its leader’s remarks on gender and overall ...

Criticized as misogynistic, an opposition leader said his comment that policy is “difficult to understand” for women was ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of Japan's small opposition Democratic Party for the People, apologized Wednesday for remarks that ...

The leaders of eight major political parties laid out differing plans to tackle rising consumer prices in a debate held on ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, head of the opposition Democratic Party for the People, apologized for equating stockpiled rice the government is distributing to retailers to “livestock feed.” ...

English remarks made recently by Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the Democratic Party for the People, a Japanese opposition party, ...

The leaders of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition party both dismissed the idea of forming a grand ...