In a run-off -- the first since 1994 -- Ishiba won 221 votes against 160 for Yoshihiko Noda, head of the main opposition ...
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has won a run-off vote in parliament to stay in his post, after an election setback last month that saw his coalition lose its majority in the ...
He will now navigate hostilities within his party, economic woes and a period of flux in international relations.
But voters, unhappy with inflation and a slush fund scandal that helped sink his predecessor Fumio Kishida, delivered a ballot-box blow to the LDP and its junior coalition partner. MPs in parliament’s ...
His predecessor Fumio Kishida also sounded the alarm on the looming demographic crisis, expanding parental leave policies and ...