Last of a series THE first and second parts of this column series portrayed an aberrant Senate, their expedient political ...

JGBs consolidated in the early Tokyo session ahead of the Japanese Finance Ministry’s auction of about 2.6 trillion yen of two-year sovereign notes.

Asian shares are mostly lower as some of the euphoria fizzles out over a tariff deal with Japan as proposed recently by ...

The current political crisis is the result of a July 20 election in Japan’s upper house, the less-powerful chamber in ...

Japan’s upper house election delivered deadlock over direction, exposing the nation’s fragile leadership and rising populist ...

Discussions of the new trade deal with Japan – including my own comments here -- remind me that it is incumbent on all of us who write about trade to be honest about how much politics, and not pure ...

The populist surge on the right is a familiar electoral feature across the West. Gains by the far right in Japan show its ...

The ruling LDP has only been able to remain in office as a minority government as a result of the deep divisions among the ...

In Japan’s July 20 House of Councillors election, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the largest political party in Japan, ...

A fringe far-right populist party in Japan was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election.

Japan’s far-right populist Sanseito party was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election, attracting ...

Japan's election outcome may put the central bank in a double bind as prospects of big spending could keep inflation elevated ...