Hours before winning a vote to stay on as Japan’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba was caught napping in parliament. But with Donald Trump headed back to the White House, he needs to wake up fast.

Sanae Takaichi, who nearly became Japan’s first female prime minister, has been campaigning in the Lower House election on behalf of ruling party allies who were disciplined over the political ...

Since the race kicked off on Oct. 15, former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi has crisscrossed the country to give stump speeches on behalf of many candidates. While Ishiba and the party ...

The election is expected to shake up the ruling’s Liberal Democratic Party’s majority hold in the lower house.

Analysts predict a short tenure for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, with one noting that Japan could return to an era of ...

Sanae Takaichi Takaichi narrowly lost against Ishiba in the LDP’s leadership last month. She could be up for another shot at the top job if she can successfully blame Ishiba for the election ...

Chief among these is Sanae Takaichi, a member of the party’s right wing who narrowly lost to Ishiba and argued late last month that it “would be stupid to raise interest rates now”.

Japan has never had a woman prime minister and Ishiba narrowly beat one of its few prominent female politicians, nationalist Sanae Takaichi, to the top job in a party leadership vote. The 1,344 ...

Waiting in the wings is Sanae Takaichi, the preferred choice from the ultra-conservative faction of the LDP who Mr Ishiba, a moderate, defeated in last month’s leadership election. open image in ...

Japan looks set for one of its closest national elections in years as voters go to the polls Sunday to decide whether to keep ...