Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's announcement of an abrupt House of Representatives dissolution for a snap election reflects her hopes of consolidating political power to achieve her own ...

Defining the opposition party politically rather than lexicographically, it would be the political force that causes the ...

Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Japan On January 19, Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae declared in a press conference that she would dissolve the House of Representatives (Japan’s lower house) ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who also is the president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, emphasized that she means to ...

By cutting off her own means of escape, PM Takaichi seemed to be demonstrating that securing a public mandate for her administration to remain in control is the purpose of this dissolution.

Asia is one of the few regions of the world where high salt intake is a leading risk factor for mortality, says Kenji Shibuya of the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, a Japanese think tank.