Thursday, September 12, marks the official start of the campaign for president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). September has brought six more candidates to the race, creating the largest ...

Politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party showed mixed reactions to an Asahi Shimbun article about a 2013 meeting ...

So far, however, it appears that the race will have the largest number of candidates ever fielded, as widely expected. The ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will elect a new leader on September 27. Since the new leader will replace Fumio Kishida as Japan's new prime minister, the unprecedentedly fierce ...

27 presidential election. On Tuesday, the Asahi Shimbun daily published a photo purporting to show a meeting between then-LDP President and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a senior official of the ...

Takaichi is running in the Sept 27 LDP race to choose the successor of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who announced in August that he will not seek reelection as leader of the ruling party in the wake ...

Japanese officials are vexed by the offhanded use of rhetoric against the US' closest ally in the Indo-Pacific. Read more at ...

Liberal Democratic Party leadership candidates Shigeru Ishiba and Sanae Takaichi, popular in public opinion polls by news organizations, are struggling to widen support for them among LDP ...

The nine candidates vying to become Japan’s next leader differed over the urgency of restoring the nation’s fiscal health in ...

Japan's leadership race kicked off Thursday with a record nine candidates including the surfing son of a former prime ...

Candidates for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential race are seen ahead of a debate at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Sept. 14, 2024. From left, economic ...

Sanae Takaichi is seen at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 14, 2023. (Mainichi/Kan Takeuchi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi is viewed by 27.7 ...