Japan’s upper house election delivered deadlock over direction, exposing the nation’s fragile leadership and rising populist ...

Japan’s shaky ruling coalition is likely to lose its majority in the upper house, exit polls showed after Sunday’s election, ...

TOKYO -- Winning 25 to 30 seats in Japan's next lower house election is a "realistic" goal for Sanseito, party leader Sohei Kamiya told Nikkei in a recent interview.

Facing the threat of losing its official party status in the July 20 House of Councillors election, the Social Democratic ...

The question always has been how long they’d tolerate malaise. Sunday’s answer: Not any longer.

The loss on Sunday left the Liberal Democrats a minority party in both houses of Parliament, while two new nationalist ...

The fringe far-right Sanseito party emerged as one of the biggest winners in Japan's upper house election, gaining support ...

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

The ruling LDP has only been able to remain in office as a minority government as a result of the deep divisions among the ...

Japanese markets were closed for a holiday, but the rise in the yen and Nikkei futures showed investors had already priced in ...

A fringe far-right populist party in Japan was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was facing growing pressure to resign on Wednesday after his coalition lost its ...