Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s long-reigning coalition lost a majority in the parliamentary election, underscoring ...

The Liberal Democratic Party, which has been in power almost continuously since 1955, failed to secure an absolute majority ...

Japan is entering a period of political uncertainty following an Oct. 27 election where the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s ...

Japanese voters are today heading to the polls in a snap election, following a tumultuous few years for the ruling party ...

Political crisis could hardly have occurred at a worse time as government’s decision to call elections backfires.

The Japanese electorate appeared to punish the Liberal Democrats, leaving it unclear whether the party would be forced to ...

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is one of the democratic world’s most successful parties, a one-size-fits-all ...

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is one of the democratic world's most successful parties, a one-size-fits-all electoral machine in power for all but four of the last 69 years.

Global shares rise, buoyed by a weakened yen and Japan's recent parliamentary elections, when the ruling party lost its ...

It's largely a reflection of voters' anger at the repeated financial scandals that have hit the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan nearly without interruption since 1955. The big loss ...