Japanese companies have, little by little, been cracking the door open to more defense exports. A new political coalition is ...

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in her first major policy speech on Friday, pledged to further accelerate Japan’s ...

And while the LDP has ruled Japan almost continuously for the last 30 years, it’s now in a precarious position as it prepares ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday called for hiking the departure tax from the current 1,000 yen (215 baht) ...

Months before she became Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi said she’d been invited to meet US President Donald Trump.

Sanae Takaichi, the newly-elected head of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, held talks about a possible coalition with ...

Sanae Takaichi was elected prime minister of Japan on Tuesday, becoming her the first woman to lead the country.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s embattled governing party now has its new leader, former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a ...

Sanae Takaichi, Japan's newly elected first female prime minister, is an unabashedly conservative icon of Japanese politics.

Few would have predicted that Japan would beat its longtime ally the United States in the race to elect the first female ...