The United States will seek to replicate the close rapport that characterized President Donald Trump's first-term ...

During her time in the U.S., Takaichi “worked briefly in Washington for Patricia Schroeder, a feminist congresswoman from the ...

The Liberal Democratic Party has ruled Japan in unbroken succession since Shinzo Abe’s landslide victory in 2012.

Japan's leading candidate to become prime minister sent an offering to a Tokyo shrine honouring war dead, an official said ...

Sanae Takaichi, the recently elected leader of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, is facing an uphill battle to become the ...

An admirer of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Sanae Takaichi is a protege of the ultra-conservative vision ...

A Japanese court has announced that it will hand down its ruling on January 21 next year in the case of the suspect accused ...

Japan is set to get its first female prime minister, and conservative Sanae Takaichi will have complex political juggling to ...

A Japanese court said Thursday that it will hand down the ruling in January on the man indicted over the 2022 fatal shooting ...

Prosecutors have asked Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to report for voluntary questioning in a case they are building against his secretary over unreported political funds involving as much ...

Staunch conservative and longtime lawmaker Sanae Takaichi is days away from becoming Japan’s first woman prime minister, and ...

TOKYO -- Japan's longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said Friday he intends to step down because a chronic health problem has resurfaced. He told reporters that it was "gut wrenching" to leave ...