Japan's Upper House President Sekiguchi Masakazu has told the speaker of Israel's parliament that he hopes all parties ...

The diminishing population is Japan's most urgent problem, says Taro Kono, a longtime high-ranking minister in Japan's parliament.

Japan’s prime minister Shigeru Ishiba won a rare runoff vote to stay in power despite his scandal-hit governing coalition’s loss in the parliamentary election last month. Mr Ishiba secured 221 ...

Japan's parliament on Friday raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit which had remained unchanged for more ...

Ishikawa, 48, is Japan's highest-ranking and only LGBTQ politician currently serving in the House of Councilors, the upper house of Japan's parliament, known as the Diet. Elected in 2019, he is a ...

TOKYO—Japan’s ruling coalition suffered a significant loss in a parliamentary election Sunday, a setback that risks derailing delicate trade negotiations with the U.S. just weeks before ...

Japan's Prime Minister and head of the governing Liberal Democratic Party Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a campaigning for a parliamentary election in Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024.

In a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick in Washington on Wednesday, top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa ...

Japan's parliament approved Haruhiko Kuroda as the next governor of the Bank of Japan on Friday, paving the way for more vigorous monetary stimulus sought by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as part of ...