Powerful ruling party politician Koichi Hagiuda is fighting strong headwinds in the Lower House election due to his ...

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s political integrity is still at stake over his use of official Cabinet events for self-serving purposes and his repeated obfuscations to related questions at ...

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The slush funds scandal involving factions of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that has rocked Japan's political ...

Candidates in the upcoming Japanese LDP election grapple in different ways with the legacy of Shinzo Abe. Alignment with the late prime minister, particularly on foreign policy and security, are most ...

Nicholas Smith of CLSA expects Sanae Takaichi, who he describes as a "reboot" of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, to increase fiscal spending that will provide a long-term boost to the ...

The Unification Church said the mother of Shinzo Abe’s suspected assassin is a member of the religious group but did not detail her donations that may be connected to the motive behind the shooting.

Ishiba is the LDP’s consummate outsider, a dissident who has spent his career refusing to acquiesce to orthodoxy.

But he was defeated by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the runoff vote. After Abe assumed the presidency, it was natural for him to nominate Ishiba as LDP secretary-general, the No. 2 post, ...

From the perspective of U.S. policymakers or their counterparts in countries like Australia, former Prime Minister Kishida ...

Authorities often face difficulty providing protection to key figures in elections due to a shortage of time to draw up security plans and secure manpower.

This was his fifth attempt to secure the top post in the LDP, having previously lost four leadership bids, including a 2012 contest against his long-time rival, Shinzo Abe. Ishiba, a former banker ...