Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has renewed a pledge to build up his country’s military and deepen its alliance with ...

Ishiba took office on Oct. 1, replacing his unpopular predecessor Fumio Kishida but his governing coalition badly lost a ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a parliament vote on Monday that is expected to keep him in the job, but with a ...

New lawmaker Saria Hino takes her seat on Monday as one of a record number of women in Japan's parliament, but while ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dropped the post of special adviser for international human rights issues during the recent Cabinet reshuffle, a move that critics say may send the wrong message to ...

The approval rating of the Cabinet fell further to 23 percent, and nearly 60 percent of voters want Fumio Kishida to resign as prime minister, an Asahi Shimbun survey showed. The approval rating ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gifted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a wooden “hissho shamoji” rice scoop believed to bring victory and an origami-crane-shaped lamp representing peace ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s personnel changes may be designed to give his administration a fresh start, but insiders say the process shows he has lost his hold on the ruling Liberal ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has given the official nod to significantly boost Japan’s defense budget to 2 percent of gross domestic product in fiscal 2027, according to the ministers of finance ...

Japan’s prime minister Shigeru Ishiba on Saturday renewed a pledge to build up his country’s military and deepen its alliance ...

Fumio Kishida won the presidency of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in a runoff vote on Sept. 29 and is now set to become Japan’s next prime minister. Kishida, 64, a former LDP policy chief ...