Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has survived a runoff vote against the opposition but will face turmoil ahead amid ...

A shortage of students willing to work at bars, restaurants or karaoke joints in the busy year-end season — even as pay rises ...

Parliament voted Monday to stick with Mr. Ishiba, who will lead a minority government after his party suffered heavy losses ...

A vote is mandatory following a general election, and Ishiba is expected to be re-elected in a runoff against the top ...

Shigeru Ishiba's scandal-tarnished coalition lost its parliamentary majority in a lower house election late last month.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba received some rare good news as parliament backed him to stay in the job ahead of an ...

Ishiba defeated opposition leader Yoshihiko Noda of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan by a vote of 221 to 160, ...

Japan’s economic growth slowed in the third quarter, boosting the case for the government to put together a stimulus package ...

which grants privileges to the U.S. forces in Japan, Ishiba has been advocating revisions to the agreement. But his policy stance on the issue is excluded from the LDP's platform, which only makes ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on Thursday, drawing criticism from South Korea and China which view the shrine as a symbol of Japan's ...