In a global year of elections, Japan’s long-serving Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has suffered its second-worst result on ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Should Sanae Takaichi, a well-known monetary policy dove, gain influence, the BOJ may face pressure to hold off on further rate increases, and this is likely to compound the yen’s declines.

The defeat of candidate Takaichi Sanae in the LDP presidential election perhaps came as a relief to China and South Korea. Takaichi had the support of conservative politicians such as the Nippon ...

Since the race kicked off on Oct. 15, former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi has crisscrossed the country to give stump speeches on behalf of many candidates. While Ishiba and the party ...