Former industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, known as a close aide to the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, visited the ...

Han Hak-ja is the leader of the Unification Church, a cult-like religious group also known as “the Moonies”, and the widow of ...

Japan’s former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for his historic apology over Japan’s wartime actions, has died ...

Just over 80 years have passed since the end of World War II, and memories of the conflict are fading. Why was Japan unable ...

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

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

Japan's newly elected leader of the ruling LDP party is primed to be the country’s next - and first female - Prime Minister, ...

Russia said on Tuesday it had deployed a number of its new S-300V4 missile defence systems for combat duty on a disputed chain of islands near Japan, a move that is likely to anger Tokyo.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was grilled by opposition lawmakers on Wednesday over whether he made inaccurate claims in parliament last year about a potential breach of laws on gift-giving by his ...

The head of Japan’s Komeito says it is leaving the ruling coalition headed by the Liberal Democratic Party due to concerns ...

Sanae Takaichi’s post-election fiscal agenda, featuring tax cuts, defense investment and semiconductor support, offers a near ...

In a break from her mentor Shinzo Abe, Sanae Takaichi, the incoming Prime Minister of Japan, may skip a visit to a shrine ...