Six months into office, the odds appear stacked against Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Yet he has enjoyed what political ...

Japan's parliament on Monday enacted a state budget for the next fiscal year after a rare upper house revision reflecting ...

Rice prices and inflation are putting pressure on Ishiba’s minority government.

Calls are growing in Japan for a major economic stimulus package including a consumption tax cut to cushion the blow to the ...

Shigeru Ishiba thinks consumption tax on food should not be lowered, against the wishes of political dissenters, in spite of ...

TOKYO – The government will consider “all options” as it formulates a response to the 25% tariffs being slapped on auto ...

(On Prime Minister ISHIBA Shigeru’s reaction to the passage of the FY2025 initial budget within the fiscal year under the minority ruling coalition and his aspiration toward the upcoming government ...

About a third of the fiscal 2025 budget will go to social security spending. Japan also plans to spend a record 8.7 trillion yen on defense. The budget also includes steps to mitigate the pain of ...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows, set in Feudal Japan, has sparked significant controversy even before its release due to its representation of cultural symbols, notably shrines. Prime Minister Ishiba's ...

Long locked in a fight to maintain its autonomy, the Science Council of Japan (SCJ ... the government under the jurisdiction of the prime minister. The interim report describes the council ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has stressed the importance of free trade and multilateralism and decried ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's parliament on Monday enacted a state budget for the next fiscal year after a rare upper house revision reflecting Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's decision to reverse course on ...