This means consumers have paid a premium, contributing to a downward trend in rice consumption alongside other factors such ...

Visiting Taipei last August, Liberal Democratic Party Vice-President Asō Tarō created a minor media frenzy by stressing the “willingness to fight” as a condition for peace in the Taiwan Strait.

Candidate to replace former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe holds rally in Akiba Tarō Asō and Yasuo Fukuda, the two Liberal Democratic Party (LDP or Jimintō) politicians hoping to replace former ...

The lawmaker with the highest reported assets, at ¥601.5 million, is former Prime Minister Asō Tarō of the Liberal Democratic Party, followed closely by Aisawa Ichirō, also of the LDP, whose ...

Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Tarō Asō spoke during a Liberal-Democratic party convention in a way which seemingly praised Adolf Hitler's policies. "I am not doubting a politician's motives ...

Tarō Asō confirms he read the manga in airport, but does not read it regularly Asō clarified on the program, however, that he does not regularly read the manga. While he was in the airport ...

Wiki suggests Aso is worth $5 billion. Maybe he can buy an offshore island near Taiwan... According to The Japan Times in 2022, Tarō Asō is the wealthiest member of Japan's National Diet. While Taro ...

But first of all, we turn the clocks back to Friday afternoon where Japan’s finance minister Tarō Asō, cited a surplus of money in the economy combined with weak domestic demand in his comments to ...

Yamamoto Taku, the lower house member collecting signatures to 'recall' Asō by forcing an early party election, has stepped up his effort in the hope of collecting the requisite 216 signatures (half ...

the Princess is the third daughter and youngest child of Takakichi Asō, and the sister of former prime minister, Tarō Asō. Descended from Japanese nobility in her own right, she married Prince ...

Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Rt Hon Winston Peters, last night hosted dinner at his home for the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Japan, Tarō Asō, and Vice Minister ...

Japan will begin to pay 100,000 yen (about $ 930) in financial aid to each citizen in May, Tarō Asō, the country's deputy prime minister and finance minister, told a news conference in Tokyo.