The growing accessibility of online fund-raising tools, including crowdfunding, has led Japanese political parties to ...

Diplomatic crises often change the stakes for each, and for the Japanese, the consequences of this crisis are multifaceted.

This shift was compounded in October 2025 when Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi — a long-time conservative contender — secured ...

Opposition parties criticized the political reform bills, with a Komeito lawmaker calling one of them 'totally unacceptable.' ...

China and Japan’s diplomatic spat shows no sign of an immediate offramp even as the leadership of a Japanese political party ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has won the catchphrase of the year for her pledge to “work, work, work, work and work ...

Yuta Kato says he is increasingly annoyed by foreigners ignorant of Japan's social etiquette, whether that involves blocking the streets near his work in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district or distracting ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty. Japan’s ...

Lately, Japan’s extreme weather – record-breaking heat followed by flash floods – seems to parallel the extremes in national politics. Japan’s ruling party may be preparing to elect a new leader, but ...

Driving around Tokyo blaring slogans on the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, ultra-nationalist outfit ...

The U.S. trade deal will further support improving economic fundamentals in Japan, which underpin our constructive equity positioning on the country. As we highlighted in our analysis last month, ...

Ishiba Shigeru last month won the race to become the next Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president, and thus the next prime minister of Japan. His ascendancy marked a major break. For more than 20 ...