TOKYO: A sense of crisis is building within Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as its status as the ruling party is again ...

Cherry blossoms are in full bloom across Japan, prompting the usual rush of impromptu picnics, but prices are surging for the ...

TOKYO -- The approval rating of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's cabinet slid to 35% in the latest Nikkei/TV Tokyo ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is being criticized for distributing gift certificates to 15 first-year lawmakers in his party in a scandal shaking his already weak grip on power. Ishiba has ...

Japan's state budget for the next fiscal year is poised to be enacted Monday after a rare upper house revision following ...

Japan's parliament on Monday enacted a state budget for the next fiscal year after a rare upper house revision reflecting ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba apologised on Friday for giving gift certificates to some ruling party lawmakers, a move that could hurt his administration's already low approval ratings and ...

Beset by opposition to his budget, Prime Minister Ishiba has had to go through the ordeal of saying sorry and explaining ...

The office of former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida distributed gift vouchers worth 100,000 yen each to parliamentary vice ...

And the free event wasn't just diplomacy, there were also performers from tap dancers, puppeteers, JPop singers and ...