Ito, Shizuoka Pref. (Jiji Press) -- Maki Takubo, mayor of the central Japan city of Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Thursday withdrew her resignation over allegations that she had lied about her ...

Rising political party Sanseito is the third-most popular pick among voters ahead of Sunday's election for the Upper House, a Jiji Press opinion poll for July showed Thursday. The survey found ...

Tokyo (Jiji Press) — After three months of negotiations, Japan and the United States reached a realistic deal that is expected to minimize the impact of US tariffs on the Japanese economy.

The sentencing hearing on Wednesday was not open to the press, but officials from the Japanese embassy in Beijing were permitted to attend, Jiji Press reported.

According to estimates by Jiji Press, the maximum vote-value disparity in the Upper House election was 3.13 times, between Fukui, which had 308,428 voters per Upper House seat, and Kanagawa, which ...

Japan wants to maintain and further develop good relations with South Korea, Ishiba told Cho, referring to the ties that improved under former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, Jiji Press ...

Sanseito, a new far-right party with a charismatic leader, Sohei Kamiya, came up big in Japan's parliamentary election by running on an anti-immigration, nationalist platform under the slogan ...

The election debacle comes only months after Shigeru Ishiba's coalition was forced into a minority government in the lower house, in the Liberal Democratic Party's worst result in 15 years.

Populist ideals are gaining traction in Japan, spurred by right-wing politicians running rampant elsewhere railing against "elitism", "globalism" and immigration.

Until then we have to do our best with our body and soul". Ishiba is expected to inform a meeting of senior LDP figures on Monday that he will stay in office, Jiji Press reported.