In the campaign for Japan’s recent upper house elections, Taro Yamamoto, the leader of the Reiwa Shinsengumi party released a sketch-like video in which he cosplayed as Mobile Suit Gundam character ...

After months of fraught negotiations with the United States, Japan clinched a deal just days before punitive tariffs were ...

US-Japan strike major trade deal cutting tariffs and pledging $550B investment in US supply chains and key industries.

Calls for Ishiba to resign are reportedly coming from within the LDP, the government, and regional party branches ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba refuted rumors about his resignation following a setback in the upper house election.

--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba intends to announce his resignation by the end of August, following a significant loss by the ruling coalition in parliamentary elections on Sunday, Japanese ...

The Bank of Japan will raise its key interest rate by at least 25 basis points by year-end, a majority of economists said in ...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the U.S. and Japan had struck a trade deal that includes a 15% tariff on U.S.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is contemplating resignation pending the result of U.S.-Japan tariff talks. Facing ...

Trump will show no mercy to [either] a lame duck Ishiba or because of a political vacuum,” advisory firm Quantum Strategy ...

Japan's election outcome may put the central bank in a double bind as prospects of big spending could keep inflation elevated ...

The price of rice in Japan has doubled in the last year. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with University of Pittsburgh scholar Kay ...