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

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dissolved Japan's House of Representatives on Friday for a snap general election on Feb. 8, ...

She hopes for a boost to the razor-thin majority she currently holds in the lower house Read more at The Business Times.

TOKYO -- Japan is heading into a general election on Feb. 8 -- its second in less than 16 months -- as Prime Minister Sanae ...

The ruling party says it will also accelerate talks on eliminating the current 8% consumption tax on food for two years as ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, on Wednesday renewed its commitment to "responsible yet aggressive" fiscal spending to prop up the inflation-hit economy, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's call for exempting food from the consumption tax for two years has brought ruling ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Jan. 21 endorsed 284 candidates for the Feb. 8 Lower House election, including 37 members who were implicated in a political funding scandal.

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 Sanae Takaichi's surprise announcement to dissolve the House of Representatives on Friday has sparked concerns that a "political vacuum" could delay inflation-relief measures, ...

S/ Takaichi Sanae, Prime Minister / Today, as prime minister, I have decided to dissolve the House of Representatives ...