The Liberal Democratic Party has instructed its prefectural chapters to prepare lists of candidates seeking party endorsement ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has reportedly conveyed to a party executive her plan to dissolve the Lower House at the start ...

Although the prime minister has yet to confirm a snap election will take place, Democratic Party for the People leader ...

A growing number of Japan's main governing Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers expect Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae to ...

A major South Korean newspaper has reported that the religious group previously known as the Unification Church helped at least 290 candidates fielded by Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party ...

Sunday’s parliamentary election in Japan for the lower house of the Diet has resulted in a stunning setback for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). With its ally Komeito, it failed to win a ...

Japan's longtime ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its governing partner, Komeito, lost their majority in the lower house of parliament in snap elections Sunday, striking a blow to new Prime ...

A college professor’s criminal complaint about the Liberal Democratic Party’s sloppy bookkeeping resulted in some of the most influential LDP members being purged from the Kishida Cabinet and the ...

Shinzo Abe has already become the third longest-serving prime minister in post-war Japan. He will be seeking a third three-year term as Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president in September 2018 and ...

Japan's newly launched ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party, still short of a parliamentary majority, may try to draw independents and lawmakers from other ...