Voters issued a damning rebuke to the ruling party and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, William Pesek writes in a guest ...

Observers contrasted Shigeru Ishiba with the late former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who formed close ties with ...

In Japan, companies are forced to keep ... The problem is what happened thereafter. Even while the economy was recovering after the bad debt problem of banks had been cleared up, companies ...

The number of people in Japan who took their own lives in 2023 stood at 21,837, with suicides attributed to economic and ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling party and its junior partner lost their majority in Sunday’s ...

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has pledged to take tougher measures against misuse of political funds after he was ...