By Junko Fujita and Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) -Heading into the most consequential Japanese upper house election in ...

Japan's election outcome may put the central bank in a double bind as prospects of big spending could keep inflation elevated ...

A bad night for the ruling coalition could cost the prime minister his job and make it harder to strike a deal with ...

The success of the Sanseito party could reshape Japan’s domestic and foreign policy. It also aligns Japan with political ...

Bank of Japan officials see little need to shift their policy stance of gradually raising interest rates in the wake of Prime ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday he wants to oversee the "steady" implementation of a recently ...

“It’s possible Japan might experience its own triple whammy of market turmoil, perhaps a Japanese version of the ‘Trump ...

After months of fraught negotiations with the United States, Japan clinched a deal just days before punitive tariffs were ...

Japan's ruling coalition lost control of the upper house in an election on Sunday, further weakening Prime Minister Shigeru ...

While foreign nationals do not have the right to vote unless they naturalize, as residents they contribute to the economy, pay taxes and raise families in Japan. As electoral results could impact ...

Asian shares and the yen held their ground on Monday as Japanese elections proved bad for the government but no worse than already priced in, while Wall Street futures braced for earnings from the ...

In Brief. In Japan’s forthcoming quadrennial unified local elections there will be 1000 separate elections. More than 230 political heads, such as prefectural governors and city and town mayors, will ...