Lawmakers in Japan are often seen in suits. While there is no clearly stated dress code in the Diet, some rules exist as a ...

He will now navigate hostilities within his party, economic woes and a period of flux in international relations.

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is one of the democratic world’s most successful parties, a one-size-fits-all ...

The Liberal Democratic Party, which has been in power almost continuously since 1955, failed to secure an absolute majority ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s decision to disband the ... of unreported money collected by factions in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party through fund-raising parties. On Jan. 18, he told ...

The election is expected to shake up the ruling’s Liberal Democratic Party’s majority hold in the lower house.

Ishiba, 67, took office in early October and called a snap election which he hoped would shore up his mandate as leader of ...

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ... voter discontent over inflation and a new scandal sank his predecessor Fumio Kishida. Kishida, in power for three years, replaced Yoshihide Suga, who ...

But even if he may have to take responsibility and step down as head of the party and prime minister, it won't cause his ...

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’ s conservative ruling party braced for a blow to its comfortable majority in the lower house of parliament in Sunday’s elections as a result ...