The official campaign period for the House of Councillors election got underway on July 3 as the lingering issue of "money in ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election this month as his minority government ...

Campaigning for Japan's upper house election started Thursday, with unpopular Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba fighting to ...

Faced with right-wing attacks amid a growing national profile, Japan’s Kurds could benefit from simple, pragmatic ...

Law requiring couples to share one surname hinders women in the workplace and lowers birth rate, campaigners claim ...

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party suffered its worst-ever result in a Tokyo metropolitan election, losing its spot as ...

July 3, marks the official start of campaigning for the House of Councillors election. Can the sense of stagnation in ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election was a critical test for Ishiba’s leadership and his party, and the LDP failed it.

This was because the LDP refused to accede to the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and other opposition parties' demands that these donations be banned in principle, insisting instead that ...

Japan election LDP widens lead heading into Japan's upper house race Ishiba cabinet's approval rating rises 3 points to 37%, Nikkei poll shows ...

From right, the ruling coalition senior partner Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)'s Secretary-General Hiroshi Moriyama, General Council Chairman Shunichi Suzuki and Itsunori Onodera, chair of the LDP ...

Major parties -- including the LDP's junior coalition partner Komeito -- actively used social media and delivered street speeches to appeal to voters, particularly unaffiliated ones. The number of ...