The end of Japan's 26-year-long ruling coalition just before Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took office in October will force the centrist Komeito party, which had long wielded influence ...

In 2026, Japan’s fragmented Diet will have less room to govern as economic pressures, demographic decline and regional uncertainties sharpen policy trade-offs ...

The Liberal Democratic Party’s strategy of electing Sanae Takaichi as president to win back supporters who had drifted to new ...

The figure compares with the Liberal Democratic Party’s announcement in 2022 that 180 of its lawmakers had ties with the ...

Japan’s long-standing coalition cracked when Komeito chose its identity over power, walking out rather than be tainted by the ...

A major South Korean newspaper has reported that the religious group previously known as the Unification Church helped at ...

While Japan's two governing parties share the goal of revising the country's Constitution, differences between their stances are now becoming evident. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is seeking a ...

Shinzo Abe was “more skilled” at building consensus through dialogue, an opposition lawmaker said. Read more at ...

Japan stands on the cusp of a potentially historic political shift, with Saturday's vote for the ruling party's new leader set to usher in either the nation's first woman prime minister or its ...

Hagiuda told Lai that he hopes to continue deepening what he described as the best-ever relations between the two sides.

Executive Acting Secretary-General of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party Hagiuda Koichi has met with Taiwan President Lai Ching-te and expressed hope that Japan will deepen exchanges with Taiwan.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party have broadly agreed to form a coalition government, setting the stage for the country's first female prime minister, ...