Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is seeking to leverage her popularity to help her party win Sunday’s snap election as she pushes her right-wing agenda to boost her country's economy and military capabilities in the face growing tensions with

Sanae Takaichi’s hardworking persona and social-media savvy are resonating with younger people ahead of the country’s election.

Japan's first female premier has called snap elections for Sunday. She seeks a mandate for what could be sweeping changes and possibly a lurch to the political right.

Japan votes in snap elections Sunday with polls pointing to a resounding win for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's conservatives after a honeymoon start for the country's first woman leader.Surveys ahead of Sunday's lower house election indicate -- with some caution due to undecided voters -- that the LDP will easily win more than the 233 seats needed to regain a majority.

U.S. President Donald Trump gave his "total endorsement" of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ahead of a snap election in her country on Sunday and announced plans to meet with her at the White House on March 19.

She said visits to the graves by ageing former islanders is a “humanitarian issue”. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

By Leika Kihara TOKYO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Japan must avoid ramping up fiscal spending in a way that fuels inflation and forces the central bank to raise interest rates rapidly, Toshihiro Nagahama, a government panel member known as an economic aide to premier Sanae Takaichi,

Japan heads to the polls on Sunday, Feb. 8, and Polymarket traders are pricing in a near-lock: Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is staying in power. Why it matters: Markets are trading on the expectation of aggressive policy continuity—massive fiscal stimulus,