The Cabinet of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has a particularly high approval rating among young and unaffiliated voters, but ...

Japanese opposition party Reiwa Shinsengumi will make abolishing the consumption tax a key pillar of its policy pledges for the Feb. 8 election of the House of Representatives, the lower parliamentary ...

The prime minister argues that the ruling coalition’s razor-thin majority in the Lower House made it difficult to pass crucial bills.

Reports that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had checked in with traders about the yen's exchange rate sparked a surge ...

Thirty-six percent of people will vote for the Liberal Democratic Party in the proportional representation segment of the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's public approval rating has slipped in new polling ahead of a national election next month ‌that she has framed as a direct verdict on her stewardship of the ...

Asian currencies mostly strengthened against the dollar as the yen appreciated on growing prospects of a coordinated intervention in the foreign-exchange market by the U.S. and Japan.

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Monday she would step down immediately if the ruling bloc fails to ...

The approval ratings of the Cabinet of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi declined to 57% in a nationwide Mainichi Shimbun opinion ...

TOKYO--Japan's prime minister has vowed to push through a tax cut within the next fiscal year, setting an ambitious timeline for a policy that has rattled financial markets. Sanae Takaichi made the ...

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The Nikkei stock index plunged more than 2 percent on Monday afternoon, as export-oriented issues were sold following the yen ...