Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, also president of the Liberal Democratic Party, plans to appoint Seiji Kihara as new ... Fumio Kishida. Under the Kishida administration, he served as deputy chief ...

Tokyo (AFP) – New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru ... which along with a party slush fund scandal torpedoed Ishiba's predecessor Fumio Kishida after three years in the job.

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’ s ruling coalition lost a majority in the 465-seat lower house in a key ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba likes crafting model ships but his short tenure could come unstuck if the gamble of ...

Fifteen years after his father’s death, Fumio Kishida earned his first Cabinet post ... of the prestigious Kaisei Senior High School in Tokyo, was a member of the school’s baseball team ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dropped the post of special adviser for international human rights issues during the recent Cabinet reshuffle ... his needs,” he said. New policy issues ...

Former Japanese prime minister Fumio ... Kishida doubled down on the national security and foreign policy direction of his predecessors, especially the late former prime minister Shinzo Abe. Sometimes ...

An assailant tried to breach security at the office of the new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, the police in Tokyo said ... a man threw a pipe bomb at Fumio Kishida, then prime minister, while ...

The Liberal Democratic Party, which has been in power almost continuously since 1955, failed to secure an absolute majority ...

Japan faces political uncertainty as Ishiba's LDP loses grip in scandal-tainted election, affecting future leadership and ...