The Liberal Democratic Party suffered a crushing defeat in Sunday’s Tokyo metropolitan assembly election, which is seen as a ...

LDP parliamentarian Takaichi Sanae (front left) walks with Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te (front right) during a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 28, 2025.

More than 90% of Japanese firms are disappointed with the performance of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's government with nearly a third favouring rival Sanae Takaichi as the best candidate to lead ...

Tokyo (Jiji Press) -- Dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has ... The convention was shrouded in a “somewhat gloomy atmosphere,” said former LDP policy chief Sanae Takaichi, ...

Ishiba, a moderate, narrowly won a runoff against Sanae Takaichi, a candidate from the party’s far-right wing. His win was not received well within the party; Takaichi even refused offers to ...

Ishiba’s support rate is at 51% where most of his recent predecessors started out with more than 70% support. Takaichi has refused to support Ishiba by joining a unity cabinet — in some ways playing ...

Sanae Takaichi, who nearly became Japan’s first female prime minister, ... Ishiba, Koizumi, Takaichi lead crowded field in LDP election. September 25, 2024.

Ishiba, by comparison, garnered 12.5 per cent and 29.35 per cent respectively to run second. In the second-round run-off between Ishiba and Takaichi, LDP lawmakers backed Ishiba by a margin of 189 ...

Japan’s new Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has had a rapid-fire introduction to financial markets, ... (LDP), on comments by then front-runner, Economic Security Minister Takaichi Sanae, ...

The nine candidates were whittled down to two — Ishiba and Abe-protege Sanae Takaichi — who faced off in a second-round runoff vote. This time, ... Lawmakers split fairly evenly between Ishiba and ...

Sanae Takaichi, the most hawkish and conservative of the candidates, received the largest number of party member votes (72 for lawmakers and 109 for party members, 181 votes in total). Ishiba, who ...