Japan's upcoming upper house election could have important implications for fiscal health and credit ratings if it brings ...

Addressing an election rally, right-wing leader Naoki Hyakuta also took aim at the burial customs practised by some ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election this month as his minority government ...

The official campaign period for the House of Councillors election got underway on July 3 as the lingering issue of "money in ...

The following is a chronology of major events leading up to the official start of campaigning for Japan's House of ...

Social media strategies have come to play an indispensable role in elections in Japan, with some pointing out that disregard for social media･･･ ...

Early overseas voting for Japan's approaching upper house race began in Taiwan on Friday, marking the first time that polling ...

In speeches on the second day of the official campaign period for the Upper House election, party leaders focused on issues ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’ s conservative ruling party braced for a blow to its comfortable majority in the lower house of parliament in Sunday’s elections amid public rage over ...

The disproportionate weight of rural voters in Japan gives sparsely populated parts of the country more representation — and more government largess — than urban areas, perpetuating what ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s goal is a simple majority. Half of the 248 seats for six-year terms in the upper ...