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

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has dissolved the lower house of Parliament, paving the way for a Feb. 8 snap election ...

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has dissolved the lower house of parliament, paving the way for a snap election on February 8. The move is viewed as an attempt to capitalise on her popularity to ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dissolves lower house of Parliament, paving the way for Feb. 8 snap election ...

An expert said that the kind of cultural diplomacy between South Korea and Japan "lowers the emotional temperature for a relationship long defined by challenging historical issues." ...

Asian shares mostly advanced on Thursday, tracking Wall Street, after U.S. President Donald Trump walked back from imposing ...

Japan posted a trade deficit for the fifth straight year in 2025, according to government data released Thursday, as concerns ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung rounded off their summit meeting today (20 January) with an unexpected jam session where the two played drums along to ...

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) ...

Sanae Takaichi, the first woman to be Japan’s prime minister, is hoping to seize on her popularity by calling a parliamentary ...

Parliament will be dissolved on January 23rd and the election will be held on February 8th. That makes it the shortest ...