Shotaro Kishida, his father’s executive secretary for political affairs and eldest son, invited a group of people including relatives to a year-end party on Dec. 30 at the Prime Minister’s ...

Japan will have a new leader after outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s governing Liberal Democratic Party holds a vote on ...

TOKYO: Japan's leadership race kicked off on Thursday (Sep 12) with a record nine candidates including the surfing son of a ...

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election Fumio Kishida ... the son of former prime minister ...

Kishida's resignation signals a pivotal moment for Japan's political landscape, as internal strife and public discontent ...

Gearoid Reidy is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Japan and the Koreas. He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia, and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief. In the end, Fumio ...

Japan's Prime Minister Kishida to Resign, Paving Way for New Leader By Tim Kelly and Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday he would step down next ...

Voting will be held on 27 September. Seven people are currently in the run, for the first time, without the backing of party ...

During an address in Jakarta, Pope Francis on Wednesday urged political leaders in Indonesia, the world's most populous ...

effectively tendering his resignation and throwing the race for Japan’s next leader into chaos. Parallels are there to be drawn with Joe Biden, the US president with whom he deepened the bilateral ...

TOKYO, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday he would step down next month, succumbing to public disaffection over political scandals and rising living costs ...

In the end, Mr Fumio Kishida could not escape the pull of ... effectively tendering his resignation and throwing the race for Japan’s next leader into chaos. Join ST's Telegram channel and ...