Last of a series THE first and second parts of this column series portrayed an aberrant Senate, their expedient political ...

Asian shares mostly declined Tuesday as some of the euphoria fizzled out over a tariff deal with Japan as proposed by ...

William Sposato is a Tokyo-based journalist who has been a contributor to Foreign Policy since 2015. He has been following ...

Japan’s upper house election delivered deadlock over direction, exposing the nation’s fragile leadership and rising populist ...

Discussions of the new trade deal with Japan – including my own comments here -- remind me that it is incumbent on all of us who write about trade to be honest about how much politics, and not pure ...

The populist surge on the right is a familiar electoral feature across the West. Gains by the far right in Japan show its ...

The ruling LDP has only been able to remain in office as a minority government as a result of the deep divisions among the ...

In Japan’s July 20 House of Councillors election, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the largest political party in Japan, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's election outcome may put the central bank in a double bind as prospects of big spending could keep ...

For three years, a once fringe opposition party held just one seat in Japan's 248-seat upper house. But on Sunday, Sanseito ...

In Japan's recent parliamentary election, the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba failed to secure a ...