Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dissolved parliament on Friday ahead of a snap election on February 8, counting on her ...

The move by Sanae Takaichi is an attempt to capitalise on her popularity to help her governing party regain ground after ...

Sanae Takaichi came to power promising to tame inflation. But she’s boosting the crop’s cost to appease a subsidy-fuelled ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Sept 7, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced on ...

Their meeting will be a big test for the first woman elected Japan's PM. Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's meeting Tuesday in Tokyo with U.S. President Donald Trump will be a major test for the ...

TOKYO — Japan’s parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner ...

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Sanae Takaichi attends a plenary session in the lower house of the Diet, in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 21, 2025. Reporter Despite a rocky ascent, hardline ...

TOKYO – The presidential election for the Liberal Democratic Party will be held today, and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will step down within the month. After the LDP’s crushing defeat in the July ...

Japan's ruling party begins voting to choose its fifth leader in as many years, with the eventual winner almost certain to be approved by parliament as prime minister. The frontrunners for the Liberal ...

Japan's stock market rally has hit fresh highs after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's resignation adds political fuel. The leadership shake-up is fuelling bets on stimulus and looser policy, lifting ...

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index spiked Monday following Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba‘s resignation, with the benchmark opening at 43,907 and peaking at 44,174.93 before settling at 43,661.87 by 1:59 p.m.

Japanese bond yields rose after the resignation of Shigeru Ishiba over the weekend, and the dollar has recovered some but not all of its losses after weak U.S. jobs data. “Although the prospect of a ...