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The Japanese legislature, known as the Diet, is set to meet for an extraordinary session to vote for the next prime minister. The vote on Tuesday follows the collapse of a 26-year-old partnership ...

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President Lee Jae-myung will visit Nara Prefecture, Japan, for two days starting on the 13th and hold talks with Japanese ...

Yamagami Tetsuya’s trial will renew attention to the powerful effect of religious groups in Japanese politics, and the LDP’s ...

The U.S. trade deal will further support improving economic fundamentals in Japan, which underpin our constructive equity positioning on the country. As we highlighted in our analysis last month, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is seeking to emulate the economic policies of her mentor Shinzo Abe, but this agenda ...

The end of Japan's 26-year-long ruling coalition just before Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took office in October will force the cent ...