With their "Japanese First" slogan, riffing off US President Donald Trump's "America First", they have truly ruffled the ...

Back in 2007, when former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s LDP lost the upper house elections and Taro Aso’s approval ratings plummeted after he succeeded Abe, Ishiba was among the first to call ...

Ishiba’s removal will not resolve the crisis facing the Japanese ruling establishment as it faces demands from the Trump regime in Washington and developing anger in the working class over declining ...

The LDP’s historic electoral fall exposes a fractured Japan, where public disillusionment, economic woes and rising populism ...

During all the decades of the U.S.-Japan security alliance, which has been one of the closest security partnerships anywhere ...

Recent global trade deals with the United States were secured with huge, often vaguely defined investment pledges from ...

“Kamiya sort of positions himself as a mini-Trump,” Kingston, the Asian studies professor, tells TIME. “He’s appealing to the ...

President Donald Trump is bragging that Japan has given him, as part of a new trade framework, $550 billion to invest in the United States.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's resignation could herald a political turmoil in Japan, as no decisive winner emerged from the ...

The LDP’s poor upper house result compounds uncertainty at a time when Japan’s quiet leadership is critical for regional ...

Campaigning under the nationalist slogan “Japanese First,” the party capitalised on growing public frustration with ...