William Sposato is a Tokyo-based journalist who has been a contributor to Foreign Policy since 2015. He has been following ...

With their "Japanese First" slogan, riffing off US President Donald Trump's "America First", they have truly ruffled the ...

Sohei Kamiya's Sanseitō Party won 14 seats in Japan's Upper House elections, appealing to young voters with a "Japanese first ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba insisted he would to stay on after some ruling party lawmakers stepped up their calls ...

Following the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)'s crushing defeat in the House of Councillors election, calls for Prime Minister ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's future is uncertain but an unlikely campaign for him to stay was growing online this ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has vowed to remain in power to oversee the implementation of a new Japan-U.S. tariff ...

The parties aim to enact a bill to scrap the tax at an extraordinary session of parliament expected to be convened in autumn.

Japan's ruling and opposition forces agreed Wednesday to abolish the provisional gasoline tax rate by passing a bill through ...

The public doesn’t know what it wants — other than “not this” — so indecision by the LDP and other parties is understandable.

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is arranging to convene a key decision-making meeting as early as late next week.

Japan’s upper house election delivered deadlock over direction, exposing the nation’s fragile leadership and rising populist ...