The Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan almost without a break since 1955, put up the second-worst result in its ...

Hours before winning a vote to stay on as Japan’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba was caught napping in parliament. But with Donald Trump headed back to the White House, he needs to wake up fast.

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Domestic stability enabled Japan to take on an international leadership role. Those days may be over. The post A Weakened Ishiba Means a Less Ambitious Japan appeared first on World Politics Review.

The Japanese people have had their say at the polls. And they've handed the ruling coalition a stinging rebuke.

There also aren’t many great candidates waiting in the wings. Sanae Takaichi, who Ishiba beat in the runoff election last month, is divisive. Shinjiro Koizumi, the third leading candidate in ...

Chief among these is Sanae Takaichi, a member of the party’s right wing who narrowly lost to Ishiba and argued late last month that it “would be stupid to raise interest rates now”.

We see a risk, however, if PM Ishiba steps down and Sanae Takaichi were to become the new LDP leader." Takaichi recently lost ...

Waiting in the wings is Sanae Takaichi, the preferred choice from the ultra-conservative faction of the LDP who Mr Ishiba, a moderate, defeated in last month’s leadership election. open image in ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is pictured during a media interview at the headquarters of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2024, as the party is set to lose its ...

Prime Minister and President of the main ruling Liberal Democratic Party Ishiba Shigeru says projections of voting results indicate a difficult situation for his party.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday signaled that he intends to continue running the government after suffering ...