The move by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is an attempt to capitalize on her popularity to help her governing party regain ...

The unconventional leader — for starters, she’s a woman — has called an early election for Feb. 8 in an effort to win a broad public mandate for change.

SEOUL, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The defence ministers of South Korea and Japan agreed on Friday to upgrade defence cooperation and ...

Japanese government bonds and the yen have sold off in recent weeks on concern over Takaichi's expansionary fiscal policy ...

China and Taiwan responded in starkly different ways to remarks by Japanese PM Takaichi Sanae on possible intervention in event of Taiwan contingency ...

Britain and Japan agreed to strengthen defence and economic ties, visiting Prime Minister Keir Starmer said today (31 January), after his bid to forge closer links with China drew warnings from US ...

Japan’s Feb. 8 election is increasingly seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who has tied her political future to the vote.

Russia and China have regularly dispatched forces to waters and airspace around Japanese territory.

Sanae Takaichi has called a snap lower house election on February 8, one of the most unpredictable contests in years.

But as Alphaville explored on Monday, when it comes to FX, Japan’s Ministry of Finance looks generally to have bought low and ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has dissolved the lower house of Parliament, paving the way for a Feb. 8 snap election ...