Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Dec. 1, 2024, after being elected as the top leader of ...

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Yoshimura said he wants to appoint veteran lawmaker Seiji Maehara, who was foreign minister when the now-defunct Democratic Party of Japan was in power, as the party's No. 2. Yoshimura won 8,547 out ...

Election officials in Osaka on Nov. 17, 2024, check the notification of candidates for the Japan Innovation Party's leadership election on Dec. 1. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Official campaigning for ...

Work hard, play hard. That seems to be the unofficial LinkedIn-fluencer motto these days. What that actually means in practice I cringe to think about. To me it means getting lost in the streets of ...

The Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan almost without a break since 1955, put up the second-worst result in its history last month. The party had to find a new parliamentary ally to stay ...

What should Tokyo read into what could be seen as a major snub? One possibility is that Trump is planning to hit Japan harder ...

The Spirit of Japan Party was a Japanese political party formed by then-present and former regional government leaders. It was officially headed by Hiroshi Yamada; Hiroshi Nakada was secretary-general ...

The underlying strength of Japan’s economic recovery, driven predominantly by the private sector, remains robust.

Hiroshi Ogushi, executive deputy president of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, criticized the LDP draft for not mentioning a ban on donations from companies and organizations. Ogushi ...

U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska has visited Japan and South Korea four times in the last two years to pitch the yet-to-be ...