Japan marked the 81st anniversary of its World War II surrender on August 15 with a familiar ritual of diplomatic friction, as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away from Yasuku......
Rintaro Ogata (緒方林太郎)Member of the House of Representatives. Born in 1973 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka. While at the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Law, he passed the diplomatic servi......
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on July 30 directed the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to build intraparty consensus on cutting the consumption tax on food and beverages fr......
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi crossed a painful political threshold in mid-July 2026, when a Mainichi Shimbun survey recorded public disapproval exceeding approval for the ......
Japan will formally launch a National Intelligence Agency by the end of July 2026, its first prime minister-led intelligence body since World War II, in an overhaul that Prime Mini......
Kono Yohei (河野洋平), one of Japan's most consequential postwar statesmen, died on June 8 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 89. To many younger Japanese, he was perhaps best known ......
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has reclaimed a commanding parliamentary majority, but the prime minister who engineered that landslide now faces a more difficult test: rev......
On the afternoon of April 30, Japan's financial markets faced three major shocks simultaneously: long-term interest rates surged above 2.5% for the first time in 27 years, the doll......
Japan's minister responsible for steering the country's artificial intelligence strategy has surprised observers by revealing she avoids using AI tools in her own work.Onoda Kimi, ......
A historic election landslide for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has sparked intense debate among policy experts in Taiwan, with scholars warning that Tokyo's potential shi......
Following a landslide election victory for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party, markets are bracing for a shift toward expansionary fiscal policy focu......
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te on Saturday congratulated Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on her party's victory in Japan's House of Representatives election, describing th......
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) scored a crushing victory in the 51st House of Representatives election, securing 316 of the chamber's 465 seats as results were final......
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, secured a historic victory in the February 8 House of Representatives election, decisively clea......
As Japan approaches voting day for its 51st House of Representatives election on February 8, the campaign has entered its final stretch—known locally as “Golden Week.” Yet for obse......
Japan's February 8 lower house election has become more than a routine parliamentary contest. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has deliberately turned it into a personal referendum on......
As China takes a more confrontational stance towards Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration, traditionalSino-Japanese diplomatic relations have stalled as Tokyo pu......
