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Voting is underway on Sunday in an election for Japan’s House of Councillors, the upper chamber of parliament, a poll that ...

Japanese voters headed to the polls on Sunday in a tightly contested upper house election that could unleash political ...

Voters in Japan headed to polling stations Sunday to elect 125 lawmakers for the upper house of parliament, in a crucial test for the minority ruling coalition of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

By Junko Fujita and Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) -Heading into the most consequential Japanese upper house election in ...

Japanese voters are casting ballots in a key parliamentary election. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling coalition faces ...

TOKYO -- Japanese were voting Sunday for seats in the smaller of Japan's two parliamentary houses in a key election with ...

Japanese voters head to polls in a crucial upper house election amidst concerns over inflation and immigration. The Liberal ...

South Korea’s women lifted the trophy at the EAFF E-1 Football Championship for the first time since 2005, when some members ...

A poor showing by the coalition could shake investor confidence in the world’s fourth-largest economy and disrupt critical trade talks with the United States, analysts say.

Japan’s voters will deliver a verdict on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s 10 months in office on Sunday, in an upper house ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a reckoning from voters on Sunday with upper house elections that could end his ...