According to several high-ranking administration sources, the organ will report directly to Kishida, who is also LDP president, and the ultimate aim of the discussions will be to revise the ...

Japan's longtime ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its governing partner, Komeito, lost their majority in the lower house of parliament in snap elections Sunday, striking a blow to new ...

The first elections with national significance since the slush fund scandal overshadowing factions within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) are at hand. The stances of both Japan's ruling ...

The changes were made amid a growing scandal over the apparent underreporting of income and expenditures related to fund-raising parties held by the LDP faction once led by former Prime Minister ...

As a condition for agreeing to put the bill to the votes, the CDP had demanded that four former senior members of a now-defunct LDP faction once led by the late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe be ...

LDP supreme adviser Taro Aso, left in the back row, speaks to party Vice-President Yoshihide Suga ahead of a House of Representatives plenary session on March 21, 2025. Former Prime Minister Fumio ...

The Liberal Democratic Party holds its annual convention in Tokyo on March 9, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Sunday called for his ruling Liberal Democratic Party ...