By Tim Kelly and Mariko Katsumura TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese voters headed to the polls on Sunday in a tightly contested upper ...

Japanese were voting Sunday for seats in the smaller of Japan's two parliamentary houses in a key election with Prime ...

Japan is voting in a crucial upper house election as PM Shigeru Ishiba's coalition risks losing ground. Rising prices and ...

Surveys suggest Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling LDP coalition may lose its majority in the upper house, potentially threatening his ...

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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a reckoning from voters on Sunday with upper house elections that could end his ...

TOKYO -- Japanese were voting Sunday for seats in the smaller of Japan's two parliamentary houses in a key election with ...