LDP chief Sanae Takaichi and Hirofumi Yoshimura, head of the smaller, right-leaning party known as Ishin, spoke via phone on ...

Lawmakers in the Japan Innovation Party (Ishin) are set to meet this afternoon to decide whether to form an alliance with the ...

Japanese stocks are climbing Monday as the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is poised to sign a new coalition deal, putting ...

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party have broadly agreed to form a coalition government, setting ...

Japan's weakened Liberal Democratic Party is set to begin policy talks on Thursday with the Japan Innovation Party (JIP) as ...

The Japan Innovation Party and the Liberal Democratic Party made "big progress" in talks towards a possible coalition, party ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday appointed seven Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers implicated in a high-profile ...

Japan’s Ishin opposition party held an executive meeting on Sunday as it mulled the possibility of joining forces with the ...

The LDP found a new coalition partner, but Prime Minister Takaichi is still short of a majority in the lower house.

Sanae Takaichi, president of the Liberal Democratic Party, was elected Japan's first female prime minister in parliament on ...

If the JIP’s proposal goes through unchanged, it would mean a reduction of 46 seats from the proportional representation ...

Japan has elected its first female prime minister, Ms Sanae Takaichi. The 64-year-old clinched 237 votes in Japan's Lower ...