The remarks of Tsutomu Watanabe, a former central bank official, are likely to feed market expectations for another interest ...

Most worrisome now is a growing sense among the Japanese public that the U.S. is no longer a reliable partner.

The maximum vote-value disparity between House of Councilors prefectural constituencies has risen to 3.126 times for the July ...

Given all that is taking place, this is shaping up to be one of the most unusual Upper House elections in decades.

A working relationship with ruling parties is key to achieving their policy goals, but at the risk of losing their populist ...

Ahead of the Upper House elections on July 20, Sanseito, the party I lead, has adopted the slogan “Japanese First” and is ...

Japan's law for promoting gender equality in politics calls on political parties to make the number of male and female ...

A flurry of fast-moving events over the past week have thrown Japan’s tariff negotiations with the United States into ...

Two key ingredients were in less abundance at the once-a-decade International Conference on Financing for Development: money and power.

Defections across the land border are relatively rare, as the area is densely forested, heavily mined and monitored by ...

Tokyo and Kyoto are top cities for “noctourism,” or nighttime tourism, among more than 100 major cities worldwide, according ...

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