A fringe far-right populist party in Japan was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election.

The study highlights how climate-driven food price spikes can aggravate public health risks and social unrest. View on ...

Populist Sanseito’s rise is eroding the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s dominance and reshaping Japan’s traditionally staid ...

USD/JPY gained modestly on Tuesday as markets largely looked past the LDP-Komeito coalitions election defeat. Japans ruling ...

The bruising electoral defeat suffered by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling coalition has plunged the country into a state of political uncertainty, creating a significant new dilemma ...

A bad night for the ruling coalition could cost the prime minister his job and make it harder to strike a deal with ...

More likely would be for Japan to compile an extra budget in autumn to fund payouts and tax breaks. The size could exceed ...

A youthquake has upended politics in the world’s oldest society, Japan, leaving Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba a lame-ish duck ...

Investors in the region will also be keeping a close watch on Japanese markets, which reopen after its election over the ...

The judge, Allison Burroughs, did not issue a ruling during a court hearing today in Boston. But she seemed far more receptive to Harvard’s arguments, suggesting that the school might prevail in its ...