Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is easily the most successful political party in the developed capitalist world. While ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party wants to include discussions on whether the export of lethal weapons to "nations under aggression" should be allowed as part of the proposed easing of ...

TOKYO — Japan's long-governing Liberal Democratic Party will choose a new leader on Saturday to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, but the winner must quickly restore political stability and ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, also president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, earned the most among leaders of ...

Haruo Tsukamoto, 74, is facing what he calls the hardest political choice of his life: who he should vote for to become Japan’s next prime minister, and whether he should keep backing the party he has ...

Shigeru Ishiba, Japan's Prime Minister and president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), listens to a question from a journalist at the LDP headquarters, on the day of Upper House election ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will pick its new leader on October 4, the party's election committee said Tuesday, replacing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba who resigned after huge ...

TOKYO -- Japan's governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become the ...

The embattled leader is trying to head off a deep split in his party over a right-wing political surge, a weakened economy and turbulent trade relations with the United States. By River Akira Davis ...