The prime minister’s public support level rose by 2.4 percentage points to 24.6 per cent in a Kyodo News poll in late July from a month earlier, while a Jiji …
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced that he will not run in the upcoming party leadership vote. It means Japan will have a new prime minister when his three-year term …
Last week, Biden announced a 100 per cent tariff on electric vehicles (EVs) from China, roughly a quadrupling of earlier levies. Tariffs are also surging on solar cells, advanced batteries, …
At the same time, it has been working towards increasing its defence budget to 2 per cent of its gross domestic product by 2027, which will potentially make it the …
Former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso, a senior figure in the country’s ruling party, met with Donald Trump on Tuesday, becoming the latest US ally seeking to establish ties with …
Former education minister Ryu Shionoya, the de facto leader of the Abe faction, and Hiroshige Seko, former LDP secretary general in the House of Councillors who is also a high-ranking …
Trump is all but certain to be the Republican nominee in the November election versus US President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party standard-bearer. Trump is already telegraphing that a Trump …
However, attempts to rapidly bolster a military alliance could provoke China, causing regional divisions and instability. In recent years, Britain has strengthened its engagement in the Indo-Pacific region and plans …
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, headed by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, revised internal rules on Sunday to toughen penalties for lawmakers involved in political funds scandals, as public trust in …
The data depicts weakness in consumption, capital expenditure, public investment and home sales. The downshift in China, Japan’s top trading partner, does not augur well for exports going forward. All …