The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)'s largest faction formerly led by ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in a July 2022 ...

The party’s first-ever seats in the Tokyo legislature come amid scrutiny over its leader’s remarks on gender and overall ...

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

What began as a fringe movement is now gaining traction, driven by voter dissatisfaction with mainstream political parties ...

An overwhelming percentage of opposition candidates in the Upper House election support a “total ban” on corporate and group donations, but the rate was zero for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a ...

The situation surrounding the latest political funding scandal — that is, Liberal Democratic Party factions’ underreporting and misallocation of money from fundraising parties — is no different.

Less than an hour later, Japan’s tough-minded Premier Nobusuke Kishi fatalistically paid the cost of his three-year fight for treaty revision. Meeting with the kingpins of his Liberal Democratic ...

Japanese media said it was a record-low result in the key local ballot for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has led the country almost continuously since 1955.

The Liberal Democratic party, which governs at the national level in a fragile coalition, won just 22 seats in Tokyo’s 127-member metropolitan assembly.