The leader of the main opposition party squared off against Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba during an opening Diet debate but ...

Yoshihiko Noda won the presidency of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on promises to shift the main opposition party toward centrist conservatism, but that move could alienate its ...

The CDP leader raised concerns about the United States' decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization and the Paris ...

With some elections set for the summer, Yoshihiko Noda, head of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, is looking to beef up support for local elections in a bid to build ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday he wants to accelerate the debate within his ruling Liberal Democratic Party over ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Tuesday that he aims to build a relationship of trust with Donald Trump, who has ...

Described by many as the “Japanese Banksy,” 281 spreads his political messages through graffiti. Tokyo is expected to enter into its third recession since 2008 at the same time voters go to ...

But experts say its newly elected leader, centrist former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, is pushing a conservative shift for ...

Japan's main opposition party, led by former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, has struggled to bolster its presence despite its breakthrough in the Oct 27 House of Representatives election, in which the ...

“Japan's Naoto Kan has stepped down as prime minister and been replaced by former finance minister Yoshihiko Noda. A fiscal conservative and self-described as having little public support, Prime ...

“Our goal was to break the ruling party’s majority, so the fact that we have achieved it is a huge accomplishment,” said ...

Nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was badly damaged by the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March, have finally been stabilized, according to the ...