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.

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 ...

Tokyo and Washington agreed Friday to boost joint production of defence equipment including missiles, and expand their ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi made a joint appearance at Fort Meyer ...

Japan will go to the polls in February for a general election after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called a snap poll today.

Amid projections that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will play a political gamble by dissolving the House of ...

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TOKYO (AP) — Sanae Takaichi made history by becoming Japan’s first female prime minister in October. She must now decide whether she’ll break another barrier: the taboo barring women from the sumo ...