Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is leading in support from fellow lawmakers in Japan’s ruling party leadership ...

Japan's ruling party leadership race, which will determine who becomes next prime minister, could complicate the central bank ...

TOKYO – Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is leading in support from fellow lawmakers in Japan’s ruling party ...

All four presidential candidates of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan support legalizing same-sex marriage, a ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's fund management body donated a total of 100 million yen (approx. $700,000) to the Liberal ...

September has brought six more candidates to the race, creating the largest field of candidates in the party’s history.

The pledge by 43-year-old Shinjiro Koizumi, the youngest candidate in the running to be Japan's next prime minister, to hold ...

Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi is viewed by 27.7 percent of Liberal Democratic Party supporters as most ...

Japan will soon have a new prime minister to replace Fumio Kishida, who resigned from his post in mid-August. The ruling ...

Politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party showed mixed reactions to an Asahi Shimbun article about a 2013 meeting ...

The pledge by 43-year-old Shinjiro Koizumi, the youngest candidate in the running to be Japan's next prime minister, to hold ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday unveiled the nine candidates who will run in a Sept. 27 leadership ...