Koizumi is expected to lean on his recent efforts to curb soaring rice prices, a politically sensitive issue that could help ...

Amid renewed tightness in supply and a spike in prices, officials have been urging farmers to plant more, marking yet another ...

The BoJ also said it would sell financial assets it had previously acquired to keep rates lower -- including exchange-traded ...

Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi and former internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi are seen as the frontrunners in the ...

MIREYA SOLÍS is Director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies and Senior Fellow and Philip Knight Chair in Japan ...

Shigeru Ishiba, Japan’s Prime Minister, resigned on Sunday, 7 September 2025, bringing his 11-month leadership to a sudden ...

Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba stepped down less than two months after his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost its ...

Ishiba said he was resigning to head off a “decisive split” in the LDP, which has ruled Japan for most of the past 70 years.

The following is a chronology of major political events related to the government of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

The state’s decades-old wild rice sulfate standard is as central to miners’ fears as it is to environmental advocates’ hope.

Shigeru Ishiba, the prime minister of Japan, has announced his resignation after less than a year in office, following ...

The chaos in this pillar of democracy hits at a time when China is trying to assert its authority as a global superpower.