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

A lawmaker of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party called Wednesday for the replacement of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, ...

With food and other prices still rising, even ruling party officials have started to demand consumption tax cuts as a key ...

Japan's state budget for the next fiscal year is poised to be enacted Monday after a rare upper house revision following Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's backdown on a hike in medical costs, giving a ...

Tokyo, March 27 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced former lawmaker Megumi Hirose to 30 months in prison, ...

WITHIN the last two years the Japanese Privy Council has twice opposed acts of the Cabinet which ... will be called upon to acknowledge responsibility to the House of Representatives in the discharge ...

Japan's Diet is made up of two chambers: the Upper House, or House of Councillors, and the Lower House, or the House of Representatives. In principle, legislation must be approved by both houses ...

Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Japan Subscribe for ads-free reading ... to enact a budget bill after revisions approved by the House of Councillors and then the House of Representatives ...

Tokyo, March 28 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party ... for fiscal 2025 to votes at the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors, the upper parliamentary chamber, and at ...

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 ...