Japan's election outcome may put the central bank in a double bind as prospects of big spending could keep inflation elevated ...

Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus ...

Japan’s shaky ruling coalition is likely to lose its majority in the upper house, exit polls showed after Sunday’s election, ...

World shares were mixed on Tuesday after U.S. stock indexes inched to more records at the start of a week of profit updates ...

This means that Ishiba no longer has easy control over the upper or lower houses of parliament; last October, the LDP lost ...

The loss on Sunday left the Liberal Democrats a minority party in both houses of Parliament, while two new nationalist ...

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Exit polls suggest Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's coalition is likely to lose a majority its majority in the smaller of ...

Japanese markets were closed for a holiday, but the rise in the yen and Nikkei futures showed investors had already priced in ...

The U.S. dollar is falling again after rallying for most of July. The U.S. dollar index was down 0.7% to 97.79 after hitting ...

The LDP’s loss in the upper house is another blow to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who has been struggling to close a trade ...