You may swoon or spit but there is no way that Japan can ignore former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Vocal critics called him a ...

Takaichi had been viewed very much as a continuation candidate that had long been aligned with the ‘Abenomics’ policies and ideals of former PM Shinzo Abe. By contrast, Ishiba is known as a fiscal ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a small opposition party now able to wield outsized political influence, had long puzzled over ...

TOKYO: French President Francois Hollande said yesterday the big spending and ultra-loose money aimed at boosting Japan’s flagging economy was “good news” for austerity-weary Europe ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba responds to questions during a live interview at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Oct. 27, 2024. (Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata) The ...

Ahead of Japan's general election on Sunday, some opposition parties are calling for cutting or abolishing the politically sensitive consumption tax to entice voters feeling the pinch from price hikes ...

That would have allowed Ishiba to meet his pledge, made in a book he published in August, to roll back former premier Shinzo Abe’s “Abenomics” radical stimulus measures that included the BoJ ...

That would have allowed Ishiba to meet his pledge, made in a book he published in August, to roll back former premier Shinzo Abe's "Abenomics" radical stimulus measures that included the BOJ's ...