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Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has vowed to stay on and stabilize the political situation after the ruling party’s worst electoral result since 2009. While he is expected to continue as premier ...

We see a risk, however, if PM Ishiba steps down and Sanae Takaichi were to become the new LDP leader." Takaichi recently lost ...

Japan looks set for one of its closest national elections in years as voters go to the polls Sunday to decide whether to keep the scandal-tainted Liberal Democratic Party in ...

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 ...

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In this Sept. 12, 2014, file photo, then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, regional revitalization minister Shigeru Ishiba, center, and internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi are seen at the ...

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It was Ishiba's first-ever such offering, his office said. Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister, who ran against Ishiba in the race for the LDP presidency, visited the shrine on Thursday ...

Takaichi pledged that as prime minister she would pay an official visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine that celebrates Japan’s wartime dead, including several Class A war criminals (Japanese ...

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 read more A ...