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 ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida appointed his eldest son as executive secretary in charge ... administration began last year. Yamamoto will resign and work at the elder Kishida’s office.

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

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 ...

This double hit forced Kishida to resign to make way for a new general election candidate. Based on Kishida’s flagging approval ratings, the public is focused on this deplorable, yet ...

The circumstances of his resignation reflect the fault lines within the LDP and public distrust of the party. As Japan’s eighth-longest-serving post-war prime minister and its longest consecutively ...

Why did Japan's PM Kishida resign: A visionary step or compulsion? (Picture credit: AP) Japanese PM Fumio Kishida announced on Wednesday that he will not run in the upcoming party leadership vote ...

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said he would step down next month, succumbing to public disaffection over political scandals and rising living costs that marred his three-year term ...

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 ...

In the end, Fumio Kishida could not escape the pull of gravity ... effectively tendering his resignation and throwing the race for Japan’s next leader into chaos. Parallels are there to be ...