As Japan prepares to vote for the House of Councilors, right-wing politicians are challenging PM Shigeru Ishiba over immigration. They complain of rowdy tourists, shady foreign workers— and rich ...

Japan's tightly contested upper house election poses a threat to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's leadership, with rising ...

A slight easing in consumer inflation is welcome news for the Japanese central bank, but stubbornly high food prices will be ...

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party ruling coalition may lose its majority in the upper house in an election on Sunday, which ...

Migration, tariffs and other economic issues dominating Japan's upper house election. Read more ...

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Throughout the spring, Ishiba battled to reach a deal on the government’s budget and to assuage concerns among the public ...

Shinjiro Koizumi has scrambled to cut soaring rice prices ahead of a high-stakes election this weekend. Will it be enough to ...

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Japan-U.S. ties can also focus on engaging multilaterally, such as with Australia or South Korea, to address the issues raised in the Economic 2+2. Since Japan is preparing itself to make concrete ...

Japan's economy has been struggling for two decades and faces some of the same problems the U.S. has. Here, a man in Tokyo passes an electronic board displaying falling global markets.

TOKYO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Japan's leading gauge of capital spending rose for a third straight month in August, in a tentative sign firms are investing their profits in plants and equipment that ...