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Japan PM laments ‘harsh’ election result as upper house control slips
Japan’s shaky ruling coalition is likely to lose its majority in the upper house, exit polls showed after Sunday’s election, ...
Japan’s Long-Dominant Party Suffers Election Defeat as Voters Swing Right
The loss on Sunday left the Liberal Democrats a minority party in both houses of Parliament, while two new nationalist ...
Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba to quit after election drubbing, local media report
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will announce his resignation by the end of next month, Japanese media reported on ...
Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba vows to stay on after bruising election defeat
The embattled prime minister said he would remain in office to oversee tariff talks with the United States and other pressing ...
Growing pressure on Japan's Ishiba to resign after election trouncing
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was facing growing pressure to resign on Wednesday after his coalition lost its ...
How Japan's election outcome muddles the BOJ's policy path
Japan's election outcome may put the central bank in a double bind as prospects of big spending could keep inflation elevated ...
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Japan’s Neighbors Anxiously Assess the Results of the Upper House Election
Russia, China, and South Korea are trying to predict what the rise of Japan’s far right will mean for their interests.
Japan’s Election Shows Voters Have Finally Had Enough
The question always has been how long they’d tolerate malaise. Sunday’s answer: Not any longer.
Japan ruling party's election loss is in the price, investors say
Japanese markets were closed for a holiday, but the rise in the yen and Nikkei futures showed investors had already priced in ...
How a far-right 'Japanese First' party made big election gains
A fringe far-right populist party in Japan was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election ...
Yoroku: Two cents on nuclear weapons suggestions after Japan election
"May I put in my two cents?" A social media post that opens like this, responding to a controversial suggestion Japan should go nuclear has garnered a･･･ ...
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Why a ‘mini Trump' is breaking through in Japan
As President Donald Trump’s tariffs add to a sense of uncertainty in Japan, the Sanseito party and its leader Sohei Kamiya ...