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

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.

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

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's resignation has become unavoidable. The ruling coalition has now suffered crushing defeats in ...

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Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is set to hold a meeting of all its lawmakers to discuss its defeat in the recent ...

Japan’s voters dealt Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) with yet another devastating blow on ...

If internal strife continues, the Liberal Democratic Party as a whole could be abandoned by the people. Is this what its president wants? The only way to settle the confusion would be for Prime ...

There were two big losers in Sunday’s Upper House elections.The biggest loser was the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which, ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior coalition partner Komeito lost control of the Upper House in ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s resolve to remain in power will be tested Monday at a rare meeting of all the ruling ...