Gerald Curtis, professor emeritus at Columbia University, discusses Japan's Liberal Democratic Party elections.

By Sakura Murakami and John Geddie TOKYO (Reuters) -A leadership contest in Japan's ruling party to determine who will take ...

The Indo-Pacific remains a Japanese priority, and thus relations with India and Australia would remain important ...

It’s an important global event when the world’s third-largest economy and a significant ally of the United States gets a new ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s policies might not exactly cheer global stock markets, Japan expert William Pesek writes in a ...

Shigeru Ishiba was elected president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sept. 27, reaching the top of the ladder in ...

Japan finds out its next leader on Friday when the ruling party of outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida picks his ...

Shigeru Ishiba was elected as the new prime minister of Japan on Friday. The country’s governing political party, the Liberal ...

Japan's incoming prime minister Shigeru Ishiba is poised to call snap elections for October 27, local media reported Monday, ...

The yen fell as the market’s shock subsided over Shigeru Ishiba’s victory in the leadership race of the ruling Liberal ...

Ishiba, 67, and Takaichi, 63, emerged as the top picks in a crowded field of nine in the race that will decide the country’s ...

Ishiba prevailed over hardline nationalist Sanae Takaichi in a run-off vote in what was one of the most unpredictable Liberal ...