By Yuichi Hosoya / Special to The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] On Oct. 21, Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi was elected prime minister, becoming the first woman to ...

Japan faces the choice of accepting more immigration to offset its chronic demographic decline, or prioritizing cultural ...

The country’s new leader wants to revive former PM Shinzo Abe’s reflationary agenda when prices are already rising at 3% a ...

Japan’s new prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, outlined an ambitious vision for Japan’s economy and security in her first policy ...

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its new coalition partner, Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party), on ...

Japan’s longstanding ban on arms exports has been slowly dismantled since the Shinzo Abe era, with the conspicuous exception ...

A man accused of killing former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial. Tetsuya ...

The man accused of assassinating Japan’s former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has pleaded guilty, three years after the ...

The trial of 45-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami began at the Nara District Court, Bloomberg reports, where he admitted to fatally ...

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party newly elected chief Sanae Takaichi pauses, as she speaks to media, after a meeting with Japan's Komeito party leader Tetsuo Saito, at the party headquarters in Tokyo, ...

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will meet with Japan’s recently elected Prime Minister Sanae ...

Despite Prime Minister Takaichi’s immigration stance, some doubt she’ll go far enough to satisfy their demands.