Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is being criticized for distributing gift certificates to 15 first-year lawmakers in ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba distributed gift certificates worth 100,000 yen (about $670) each to 15 first-term ...

At an annual party convention in Tokyo, the LDP said it will draw up a new vision for the country by around Nov. 15, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the conservative party which has long held ...

Tomoko Yoshino, chief of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, was involved in the convention, signaling the LDP's desire to be on good terms with the country's largest trade union umbrella ...

The LDP convention had guests including Komeito head Tetsuo Saito, Masakazu Tokura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, and Tomoko Yoshino, president of the Japanese Trade ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party decided to revise the ... The initial draft budget crafted in December by the minority government of the LDP and its junior coalition partner, the Komeito party ...

"I will devote myself and make my utmost efforts to win (the upcoming Upper House election) without fail," Ishiba, who concurrently serves as LDP president, said in a speech in which he asked ...

Tokyo, March 9 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ... also president of the LDP, said in a speech, while asking fellow party members to "unite and act for the nation, the people ...

Iwaya has raised the ire of conservative LDP lawmakers because of a comment he made last year shortly after becoming foreign minister. He said Japanese diplomacy could not be conducted if comments ...

The Japanese public is once again losing patience with the Liberal Democratic Party. Unable to address public concerns about the LDP faction bosses’ misuse of political funds and the nation’s ...

Two Long Island historical memorabilia collectors say they will turn over 41 flags carried by Japanese servicemen in World War II — the only trace of some soldiers whose bodies were never ...