Japan's ruling and opposition forces agreed Wednesday to abolish the provisional gasoline tax rate by passing a bill through ...

Japan's ruling coalition agreed on Wednesday with four major opposition parties to abolish a provisional gasoline tax at the ...

Analysts warn that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba may resort to populist spending to shore up support for his weakened ...

Following the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)'s crushing defeat in the House of Councillors election, calls for Prime Minister ...

The public doesn’t know what it wants — other than “not this” — so indecision by the LDP and other parties is understandable.

Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has reiterated his intention to remain in office after emerging from a meeting that his ...

Back in 2007, when former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s LDP lost the upper house elections and Taro Aso’s approval ratings plummeted after he succeeded Abe, Ishiba was among the first to call ...

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Like fascism in the 1930s, today’s right-wing populism spreads like a virus, with each country catching its own strain based ...

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