Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has instructed some ruling party executives to speed up the selection of candidates for a lower ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering calling a general election as early as next month, according to ruling ...

Japan’s Nikkei 225 and Topix benchmarks both climbed to fresh all-time intraday highs, rising as much as 3.6% and 2.4%, ...

PM Sanae Takaichi may capitalise on high approval ratings and take the country to the polls in February, per local media. If ...

Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda, expressing his determination to achieve a change of government as speculation grows over a possible snap general election.

Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi stunned the world when she declared publicly in the Japanese legislature, that a Taiwan ...

The snap election, if called in Feburary, would be just about five months into Takaichi's term as prime minister.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is contemplating dissolving the Lower House when the ordinary Diet session convenes on Jan. 23, ...

A snap election could be held in early or mid-February if Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi actually dissolves the Lower House at ...

The former mayor of the eastern Japanese city of Maebashi was reelected Monday after she resigned in November over repeated ...

Amid projections that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will play a political gamble by dissolving the House of ...

The leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito have agreed to team up toward the next House of ...