Japan elections

He’s taken a page or two out of Abe’s playbook. The late leader became a master of sticking it out through scandals, relying on internal support - and a lack of alternatives - to wait until the media ran out of material. While Kishida…

Japan’s ruling coalition won the upper house election by securing a majority of seats contested on Sunday. The results showed prime minister Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior coalition partner Komeito raising their…

Japan‘s conservative coalition government increased its majority in the upper house of parliament in an election on Sunday, two days after the assassination of dominant politician and power broker Shinzo Abe. Abe, Japan’s…

<!-- -->Shinzo Abe had been campaigning in the western region of Nara for a candidate from LDP.Tokyo: Japanese voters cast their ballots Sunday in an upper house election, just two days after former prime minister Shinzo Abe was…